Claude 3 Haiku
Provider:Anthropic
Claude 3 Haiku is Anthropic's fastest and most compact model fornear-instant responsiveness. Quick and accurate targeted performance.See the launch announcement and benchmark results [here](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-haiku)#multimodal
Key specs
- Context:200K
- Max output:4.1K
- Tokenizer:Claude
- Released:2024-03-13
Token pricing
- Input price:$0.250 / 1M tokens
- Output price:$1.25 / 1M tokens
- Cache read:$0.030 / 1M tokens
- Cache write:$0.300 / 1M tokens
- Blended price:$0.500 / 1M tokens
Modalities
Text, Image
Use Cases
- Deep Reasoning & Analysis:Process long legal docs, academic papers, financial reports; multi-hop reasoning and evidence-chain tracing across huge contexts.(≈ $0.010/call)
- Vision Understanding & Generation:Recognize data trends in charts, OCR scanned docs, analyze photos and produce structured reports.(≈ $0.0075/call)
- Chat & Support:FAQ auto-response, multi-turn dialogue, emotion detection — e-commerce, finance, gov.(≈ $0.0063/turn)
- Content Moderation:Auto-detect violations, hate speech, NSFW content; custom rule sets and score thresholds.(≈ $0.0025/item)
When to pick this model
Signals derived from public pricing and spec fields — not a benchmark. Validate with official docs and your own eval.
- Low input + output price: solid fit for high-frequency calls and batch processing.
- Multimodal (text+image): fit for image captioning, OCR, chart QA, vision-grounded reasoning.
FAQ
- What is the token pricing of Claude 3 Haiku? Input price $0.250 / 1M tokens, output price $1.25 / 1M tokens, blended about $0.500 / 1M tokens. Refer to Anthropic’s official page for the exact rate.
- What context window does Claude 3 Haiku support? Context window is 200K, max output about 4.1K, suitable for long documents, multi-turn chat and complex reasoning.
- What scenarios is Claude 3 Haiku best for? Based on its capability and pricing, Claude 3 Haiku fits best: Deep Reasoning & Analysis, Vision Understanding & Generation, Chat & Support. See the Use Cases section for details and cost estimates.
- What input/output modalities does Claude 3 Haiku support? Supports Text, Image modality.
- Is Claude 3 Haiku a free model? Claude 3 Haiku is billed per token, not a free model.
- Which provider offers Claude 3 Haiku? Claude 3 Haiku is offered by Anthropic.
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