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Why use Claude 3 Haiku on Anthropic?
Anthropic offers Claude 3 Haiku with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.25/1M input tokens. Anthropic is a safety-focused AI research company and creator of the Claude model family, offering API access through the Anthropic Console for text generation, analysis, and coding tasks.
Compare Claude 3 Haiku across 7 providers to find the best fit for your use caseInput / 1M
$0.25
Output / 1M
$1.25
Cache
read $0.025 / 5m $0.30 / 1h $0.50
Batch
-50% · in $0.125 / out $0.625
Setup recipe
Python + curlInstall
pip install anthropicAuth
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=...Call
import anthropic
client = anthropic.Anthropic() # reads ANTHROPIC_API_KEY from env
message = client.messages.create(
model="claude-3-haiku",Model ID
claude-3-haikuRequest example
import anthropic
client = anthropic.Anthropic() # reads ANTHROPIC_API_KEY from env
message = client.messages.create(
model="claude-3-haiku",
max_tokens=1024,
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(message.content[0].text)Gotchas
- Use the versioned model ID, e.g. "claude-sonnet-4-6" or "claude-opus-4-7-20251101".
- The examples expect ANTHROPIC_API_KEY; rename it only if your application config maps the new variable.
Compare Claude 3 Haiku Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| AWS Bedrock | $0.25 | $1.25 |
| GCP Vertex AI | $0.25 | $1.25 |
| Salesforce Einstein Generative AI | — | — |
| Anthropic | $0.25 | $1.25 |
| OpenRouter | $0.25 | $1.25 |
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.25 |
| Output tokens | $1.25 |
Capabilities
VisionMultimodalReasoningStructured OutputsCode Execution
About Claude 3 Haiku
Claude 3 Haiku is Anthropic's Claude 3 model with multimodal text and image input and an optional reasoning mode. It is deprecated (originally released 2024-03-04); use it only for reproducing earlier results or evaluating drift over time.
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Model Specs
Released2024-03-04
Parameters20B
Context200k
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2023-08