New Delhi, Oct. 17 -- Anthropic's Claude Haiku 4.5 offers near-frontier performance at lower latency and cost, positioned for real-time assistants, agent orchestration, and coding workflows. Available on Anthropic apps, AWS Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI, Haiku 4.5 aims to make multi-agent deployments economically viable for enterprises.

Anthropic's Claude Haiku 4.5 is positioned as the company's smallest "near-frontier" model built for low-latency, cost-sensitive production workloads. The company says Haiku 4.5 responds more than twice as fast as earlier versions, delivers coding and "computer use" performance comparable to its mid-tier Sonnet 4 on several benchmarks, and costs roughly one-third as much as Sonnet 4 and a fraction of larg...