Claude Haiku 5.5 DESTROYS GPT-6 Luna?

Julian Goldie (0:00)

Claude has just dropped a brand new update called Haiku 5.5, and it makes Claude faster and cheaper. And today, I'm gonna show you how to get way more done with Claude without ever running out of tokens again. Plus, there's one simple trick where you tell Claude to run a whole team of helpers in the background, and it does it all for you, all the heavy work with you and Haiku 5.5. I'll also show you exactly how to set up later in this video. Stick around because Anthropic also just announced that they're giving away credits to subscribers. I'll show you how to get yours. By the end of this, you'll know exactly how to squeeze way more power out of Claude than ever before. Let's get into it. Today, we have a brand new update from Claude, which is Claude Haiku 5.5, the cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model they've ever released. They've said on average, it costs around 75% less to run than Claude Haiku 5.5, and you can see how it performs. So it's a big step up from Haiku 4.5. I actually don't know many people that use this previous model, 4.5, but you can see the difference in benchmarks right here. So 5.5 versus 4.5 for our on-knowledge work, for example, it costs 1,620 versus 735, 1,578 on knowledge work, a briefcase versus 614 So it's like a fast, powerful model that's cheap. And I would say probably good for like bigger tasks where you need to get a lot done, but you don't want the cost to get too expensive. Now you can see how it performs versus Sonnet 5.5, which is in the middle between Opus 5.5 and Haiku.

So for reference here, it's not quite as powerful as Sonnet 5.5, but it is 75% cheaper than Haiku 4.5. And it's like Claude's alternative to something like GPT-6, Luna. So Luna is one of the cheaper, harder working models for opening AI.

And if we look on the benchmarks here, it's pretty much crushing on almost everything. Now, one of the use cases for this will be like, if you're running out of tokens a lot on Claude, on your subscription, then you could use a cheaper model, get more tokens out of it, get more stuff done with it, if that makes sense.

So it's designed for high volume, cost sensitive tasks.

It can handle repetitive work, for example, like summaries and classification, pairs well with Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 as a sub-agent on coding work. So what that means essentially is like you could go into Claude, you could start a new chat here and you could be like, okay, I want you to create a task, but then I want you to use Haiku for any sub-agent task in the background. And that way it can delegate and orchestrate Haiku 5.5 for you in the background, as it does other stuff.

So this is also the first Haiku model with an adjustable effort setting. So you can decide whether to optimize the cost or intelligence on each task. So for example, you've got with Haiku 5.5, low, medium, high, extra high, and max with that model.

So if we go over to Haiku 5.5 here, we can switch between all these different settings for effort and switch them up and change them up over here too. It's pretty useful. Now you can see the performance here. So if you've got, for example, Haiku 5.5 on extra high, it does get into the same category as Sonnet 5.5 on the lower effort settings. So that's where it overlaps. Obviously, the costs are much cheaper. And if you're wondering, okay, how much did it cost? So you can see the differences here versus Sonnet 5.5 and versus Haiku 5.5. So this is Haiku 5.5, 4.5 and Sonnet 5.5. And if you look at the cash reads, for example, versus 0.1 for 4.5 and 5.5 is 0.1 as well. Big difference right there. Cash raise and input tokens and output tokens. So 0.1 per input token for Haiku 5.5 versus $1 per input token for Haiku 4.5 and Sonnet 5.5 is $2 per input token versus $0.10. So huge difference. And it's available inside Claude Code, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, et cetera. They've also said one more thing, we're having the price of cash reads and Claude Sonnet 5.5 to 0.1 per million tokens. That makes Sonnet 5.5 around 20% cheaper to run on most long running tasks. Now, if you were coding and you wanted to create something interesting, particularly for design, let's say, for example, you're coding out a big project, you wouldn't use Haiku 5.5 as a main model just to be clear here. So for me, typically, when I'm coding out of Claude, I'm going to be using Opus 5.5 still. But again, for subagents, for little heavy tasks, high volume tasks in the background, then you would use Haiku 5.5. So you can see here that Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5 remain better choices for complex, agentic coding tasks like those measured by Terminal 4.0. By contrast, Haiku 5.5 is best suited to narrowly scoped tasks that might otherwise have been cost prohibitive with previous versions of Claude. So stuff like compaction, summarization, subagent work, those are the use cases for this.