Haiku 5.5 is priced to be your subagent model. Here's how to wire it in

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:11:00 +0000

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on October 7, and the pitch is the job you probably already have for a small model: the narrow, high-volume work your main agent delegates. Input costs $0.10 per million tokens and output $0.50, against $1 and $5 for Haiku 4.5. Claude Code 2.1.293 shipped the same day with it as the default Haiku, per the changelog .

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Haiku 5.5 is priced to be your subagent model. Here's how to wire it in