Using Claude 3 Haiku on Anthropic

Implementation guide · Claude 3 · Anthropic

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Anthropic exposes Claude 3 Haiku through model ID claude-3-haiku. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at Anthropic and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the Anthropic SDK or REST API to call claude-3-haiku — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $0.25/1M input, $1.25/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

Install
pip install anthropic
API key
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
Model ID
claude-3-haiku

Use the versioned model ID, e.g. "claude-sonnet-4-6" or "claude-opus-4-7-20251101".

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)

Pricing on Anthropic

TypePrice (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.

Model Specs

Released2024-03-04
Parameters20B
Context200k
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2023-08

Provider

Anthropic

San Francisco, California, United States