Using Claude Haiku 5.5 on AWS Bedrock

Implementation guide · Claude 5.5 · Anthropic

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AWS Bedrock exposes Claude Haiku 5.5 through model ID anthropic.claude-haiku-5-5. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

Last refreshed 2026-10-07. Next refresh: weekly.

Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at AWS Bedrock and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the AWS Bedrock SDK or REST API to call anthropic.claude-haiku-5-5 — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $0.10/1M input, $0.50/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

Install
pip install boto3
API key
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
Model ID
anthropic.claude-haiku-5-5

Use Amazon Bedrock model IDs, e.g. "anthropic.claude-3-opus-20240229-v1:0" for on-demand, or cross-region inference profile IDs like "us.anthropic.claude-opus-4-7-20251101-v1:0". These differ from the public model slug.

import boto3

# Reads AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_DEFAULT_REGION from env
client = boto3.client("bedrock-runtime", region_name="us-east-1")
response = client.converse(
    modelId="anthropic.claude-haiku-5-5",
    messages=[{
        "role": "user",
        "content": [{"text": "Hello"}]
    }]
)
print(response["output"]["message"]["content"][0]["text"])

Pricing on AWS Bedrock

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$0.10
Output tokens$0.50

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningJSON / Tool useStructured OutputsPrompt CachingBatch API

About Claude Haiku 5.5

Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5, third model in the Claude 5.5 family, released October 7, 2026. First-party positioning: cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model yet; built for high-volume, cost-sensitive work (summaries, compaction, classification, routing, subagents, live support, browser/computer use). First Haiku with effort controls and adaptive thinking (default effort medium). Claude API id claude-haiku-5-5. Prompt-length pricing: ≤100K tokens $0.10/$0.50 per 1M input/output; >100K $0.50/$2.50. Cache (≤100K): 5m write $0.125, 1h write $0.20, read $0.01; (>100K): $0.625/$1/$0.05. Batch API 50% off.

Model Specs

Released2026-10-07
Context1.05m
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2026-06

Provider

AWS Bedrock

Amazon Web Services

Seattle, Washington, United States