Claude Haiku 5.5's 100K line: one extra token can make the whole request 5x
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Claude Haiku 5.5 is cheap at $0.10 input and $0.50 output per 1M tokens, and it has a 1M-token context window. The price sheet also has a step at 100K prompt tokens, and it applies to the whole request. If your agent or batch job sits near that line, the step matters more than the headline price. H…
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- 2026-10-30 01:48 · DEV Community — AI
Claude Haiku 5.5's 100K line: one extra token can make the whole request 5x