Anthropic has released its newest and smallest AI model, Claude 3.5 Haiku, which outperforms the previous flagship model, Claude 3 Opus, on various benchmarks at a lower cost, according to the company. However, Anthropic has increased the pricing for Claude 3.5 Haiku to reflect its enhanced capabilities, with input tokens now costing $1 per million and output tokens priced at $5 per million, a significant increase from the previous model’s pricing. The new model, available through Anthropic’s API and third-party platforms like AWS Bedrock, lacks image analysis features but has a more recent knowledge cutoff compared to its predecessor, as reported by Kyle Wiggers.