2.5% offClaude Haiku 5.5 API
Anthropic·Vision
Claude Haiku 5.5 is Anthropic's small, fast model for high-volume, cost-sensitive work such as summarization, subagents, and browser use. It succeeds Claude Haiku 4.5 with stronger coding, computer use, and...
Pricing
Cheapest live price, per 1 million tokens.
Input / 1M tokens
$0.100 OpenRouter
Output / 1M tokens
$0.500 OpenRouter
Cache read / 1M
Repeated prompt prefixes
Cache read is the discounted rate for repeated prompt prefixes (system prompts, agent context).
Capabilities · 10
Specifications
- Context window
- 100K
- Max output
- 128K
- Type
- Vision
- Creator
- Anthropic
- Live sellers
- 9
- Requests / 24h
- 143
Estimated monthly cost
30 days at the cheapest live price.
Quick start
OpenAI-compatible — change the base URL and key. Get a key from the dashboard.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.qubax.ai/v1",
api_key="YOUR_QUBAX_API_KEY",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="claude-haiku-5.5",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)About Claude Haiku 5.5
Claude Haiku 5.5 is a multimodal language model developed by Anthropic. It's particularly well-suited for analyzing images, screenshots, and visual content, tackling complex, multi-step reasoning problems, orchestrating tool-using agents that call APIs and external services, grounding responses in real-time web search results, producing structured outputs for reliable data extraction and handling large contexts of up to 100K tokens. Its 100K-token context window means you can pass in entire documents, codebases, or conversation histories without losing context. It can write up to 128K tokens in a single response.
As of Oct 8, 2026, Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.098 per 1M input tokens and $0.487 per 1M output tokens on Qubax, versus $0.100 / $0.500 on OpenRouter (3% less on input). A typical 1,000 chat requests (2K tokens in, 500 out) come to about $0.44. 9 independent compute providers currently serve it, so requests fail over automatically. It handled 143 requests on Qubax in the last 24 hours. Pay with USDC, USDT, BTC, ETH or 200+ other coins — no credit card required.
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Frequently asked questions
How much does the Claude Haiku 5.5 API cost?
On Qubax, Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.098 per 1M input tokens and $0.487 per 1M output tokens. This is 3% cheaper than OpenRouter's price of $0.100 per 1M input tokens.
Is the Claude Haiku 5.5 API compatible with OpenAI?
Yes. Qubax provides an OpenAI-compatible API. You can use Claude Haiku 5.5 as a drop-in replacement by changing your base URL to https://api.qubax.ai/v1 and using your Qubax API key. It works with Cline, Cursor, OpenCode, Hermes Agent, and any tool that supports OpenAI APIs.
Why is Claude Haiku 5.5 cheaper on Qubax than OpenRouter?
Qubax sources AI inference from an open compute marketplace on the Base blockchain where GPU providers compete on price. We pass the savings to you — 3% cheaper than OpenRouter's price for Claude Haiku 5.5.
How do I pay for Claude Haiku 5.5 API usage?
Qubax uses prepaid crypto credits. Top up with USDC, USDT, BTC, ETH, SOL or 200+ other coins and your balance is deducted as you use the API. No credit card or KYC required.
What is the context window of Claude Haiku 5.5?
Claude Haiku 5.5 supports a context window of 100K tokens, allowing you to process large documents, codebases, or long conversations in a single request.
What can I build with Claude Haiku 5.5?
You can use Claude Haiku 5.5 to analyze images and visual content, tackle complex multi-step reasoning tasks, build autonomous agents that call external tools and APIs, answer questions with real-time web search, generate structured JSON output for data pipelines and process long documents and entire codebases. Because it's served through Qubax's OpenAI-compatible API, integration into existing apps, agents, or workflows takes just a few lines of code.
How fast and reliable is Claude Haiku 5.5 on Qubax?
Responses stream token by token. 9 providers serve it, so if one is slow or down the request moves to the next.
Claude Haiku 5.5 vs DeepSeek V4 Flash (Web): which should I choose?
Claude Haiku 5.5 by Anthropic and DeepSeek V4 Flash (Web) by DeepSeek are both strong models in a similar price tier. Claude Haiku 5.5 excels at complex reasoning and supports vision/image inputs. DeepSeek V4 Flash (Web) comes from a different lab and may have different strengths depending on your workload. On Qubax, Claude Haiku 5.5 starts at $0.098/1M input tokens versus DeepSeek V4 Flash (Web)'s $0.171/1M — making Claude Haiku 5.5 the more cost-effective option for high-volume workloads. Both are available on Qubax with crypto payments and OpenAI-compatible APIs, so you can try each and switch freely.
Can I use Claude Haiku 5.5 for commercial projects?
Yes. Claude Haiku 5.5 on Qubax can be used for commercial purposes. You own the outputs you generate. Qubax provides the API infrastructure — you bring your use case.
Why use Claude Haiku 5.5 on Qubax?
2.5% cheaper
Providers compete on price — you get the cheapest healthy seller.
Pay with crypto
200+ coins (BTC, ETH, SOL, USDT, USDC). No card, no KYC.
OpenAI compatible
Drop-in base URL. Works with Cline, Cursor and any OpenAI SDK.