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Claude Haiku 4.5 is Anthropic’s fastest and most efficient model, delivering near-frontier intelligence at a fraction of the cost and latency of larger Claude models. Matching Claude Sonnet 4’s performance across reasoning, coding, and computer-use tasks, Haiku 4.5 brings frontier-level capability to real-time and high-volume applications. It introduces extended thinking to the Haiku line; enabling controllable reasoning depth, summarized or interleaved thought output, and tool-assisted workflows with full support for coding, bash, web search, and computer-use tools. Scoring >73% on SWE-bench Verified, Haiku 4.5 ranks among the world’s best coding models while maintaining exceptional responsiveness for sub-agents, parallelized execution, and scaled deployment.
| Signal | Strength | Weight | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benchmarksjust now | 71 | 30% | +21.3 |
| Capabilitiesjust now | 100 | 20% | +20.0 |
| Recencyjust now | 100 | 15% | +15.0 |
| Context Windowjust now | 84 | 10% | +8.4 |
| Output Capacityjust now | 80 | 10% | +8.0 |
| Pricingjust now | 5 | 15% | +0.8 |
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