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Claude Haiku 4.5

by Anthropic

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 Clau

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Claude Haiku 4.5

Added 10 July 2026

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Overview

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...

Best for

Best for
Cheap fast steps in multi-model agent pipelines

Use cases

  • classification
  • draft PRs
  • triage
  • tool-routing

How to use / API access

Call via OpenRouter with model id `anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5`.

  • openrouter · anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 Docs

OpenRouter id: anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5

Benchmarks

  • Intelligence Index (artificial-analysis) : 29.6 index
  • Coding Index (artificial-analysis) : 43.9 index
  • Agentic Index (artificial-analysis) : 16.4 index
  • Design Arena 3d (other) : 1147 elo · #65
  • Design Arena asciiart (other) : 1186 elo · #30
  • Design Arena codecategories (other) : 1158 elo · #65
  • Design Arena dataviz (other) : 1165 elo · #62

Enterprise DNA angle

Omni defaults bulk steps to Haiku-class models and escalates only when eval gates fail.

Notes

Claude Haiku 4.5 is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.

Pros

  • Fast and cheap for high-volume agent steps
  • Good enough coding for drafts and simple refactors
  • Vision support without frontier pricing

Cons

  • Trails Sonnet/Opus on hard reasoning
  • Closed weights