Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 for cheaper high-volume agents

Claude Haiku 5.5 is a commercial model release focused on coding, computer use, visual reasoning, and agent workloads. Anthropic reports major gains over Haiku 4.5, roughly 75% lower average cost, adjustable effort, broad availability, and a system-card safety assessment; further coverage is repetitive and claims remain vendor-reported.