PRE-RELEASE TRACKER Claude Haiku 5.5 Official Announcement Confirmed • Projected Pricing: $0.25 / $1.25 per 1M Tokens!
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HAIKU5.5 AI
Anthropic Messages API

Haiku 5.5 API & SDK Quickstart

Integrate Claude Haiku 5.5 using official Anthropic client libraries. Take advantage of streaming, structured tool use, and 90% prompt caching discounts:

Model Identifier claude-5-5-haiku-latest Alias pointing to latest production build
Max Output Tokens 8,192 Tokens Context window: 200,000 tokens

1. Python SDK Streaming Example

pip install anthropic
import anthropic

client = anthropic.Anthropic()

with client.messages.stream(
    model="claude-5-5-haiku-latest",
    max_tokens=1024,
    temperature=0.7,
    system="You are an expert low-latency AI coding assistant.",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Write an asynchronous token bucket rate limiter in Python."}
    ]
) as stream:
    for text in stream.text_stream:
        print(text, end="", flush=True)

2. TypeScript with Prompt Caching (90% Discount)

npm install @anthropic-ai/sdk
import Anthropic from '@anthropic-ai/sdk';

const anthropic = new Anthropic();

async function main() {
  const message = await anthropic.messages.create({
    model: 'claude-5-5-haiku-latest',
    max_tokens: 1024,
    system: [
      {
        type: 'text',
        text: 'Massive 50,000-word product documentation text here...',
        cache_control: { type: 'ephemeral' } // 90% discount on cache read!
      }
    ],
    messages: [
      { role: 'user', content: 'What is the return policy outlined in section 4?' }
    ]
  });

  console.log(message.content[0].text);
}

main();