Anthropic
Claude 3.5 Haiku
CurrentLatestClaude 3.5 Haiku is Anthropic’s fast, cost-efficient tier for high-volume classification, routing, and simple chat.
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Updated 1 day ago · Verified Apr 2026 · Score 78
Decision summary
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Why teams choose it
- Use as a triage layer in multi-model systems—log escalation rates.
- Verify multimodal support on your exact snapshot.
Best use cases
- Use this when real-time chat guardrails
- Use this when intent detection before tool calls
Tradeoffs
- Reasoning depth below Sonnet—don’t route hardest tasks here.
- Quota and regional availability vary.
Technical details
Modalities, benchmarks, and release context.
Modalities
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- Inputs
- text, image
- Outputs
- text
- Capabilities
- low latency, classification, routing
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