claude-3-5-haiku-20241022 price 20% cut on 2024-12-03

On 2024-12-03, Anthropic changed the published API price of claude-3-5-haiku-20241022. The superseded price had stood for 29 days. This is the only recorded price change for this model in the index.

Every metered token direction on claude-3-5-haiku-20241022 got cheaper that day. A cut is the direction people notice least, because a lower bill rarely prompts anyone to check what changed.

What changed

Per 1M tokensBeforeAfterChange
Input$1.00$0.80-20%
Output$5.00$4.00-20%

What it meant in practice

On a reference workload of 50M input and 5M output tokens a month, this change moved the bill from $75.00 to $60.00 a month, a difference of $15.00. The workload is a fixed reference used on every event page so the figures are comparable between them, not a measurement of anyone's usage.

Your recorded history should not change when prices do

A cost tracker carrying a single current-price table would reprice every claude-3-5-haiku-20241022 session you ran before 2024-12-03 at the new rate, silently restating months you already paid for. See what this change does to a real session, and why dated windows are the fix.

Provenance

Every value here carries a first-party source, and superseded prices are kept rather than overwritten. Windows before the index began are reconstructed from web archives and labelled as archived rather than claimed as first-party.

WindowSource
Input, 2024-11-04 to 2024-12-03https://web.archive.org/web/20241105102333/https://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-models-and-computer-use
Input, from 2024-12-03https://web.archive.org/web/20241203010242/https://www.anthropic.com/pricing
Output, 2024-11-04 to 2024-12-03https://web.archive.org/web/20241105102333/https://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-models-and-computer-use
Output, from 2024-12-03https://web.archive.org/web/20241203010242/https://www.anthropic.com/pricing

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Derived from the AI Price Index, last updated 2026-07-25. Licensed CC BY 4.0: reuse this with credit to the dataset page.