Claude Haiku 5.5: The Cheapest AI Model for Small Business Automation Gets 90% Cheaper

Claude Haiku 5.5, the cheapest AI model for small business automation — robot hand touching an AI network

If you run any AI-powered tool in your business — a support chatbot, an inbox triage bot, a voice answering service — the bill behind it just got rewritten. On October 7, 2026, Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, calling it “the cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model we’ve ever released.” For prompts under 100,000 … Read more