The cheapest Anthropic model is Claude 3 Haiku at $0.250 per million input tokens. Claude 3.5 Haiku ($0.800) and Claude Haiku 4.5 ($1.00) round out the top three.
AI models ranked by input token price. The most affordable large language model APIs, from budget open-weight models to discounted frontier models.
The cheapest Anthropic model is Claude 3 Haiku at $0.250 per million input tokens. Claude 3.5 Haiku ($0.800) and Claude Haiku 4.5 ($1.00) round out the top three.
Claude 3.5 Haiku ($0.800) is the closest alternative on this metric, followed by Claude Haiku 4.5 ($1.00). See the full ranking above for the tradeoffs.
modelgrep tracks 16 Anthropic models with live benchmarks, speed, latency and per-provider pricing, led on intelligence by Claude Fable 5. 16 of them qualify for this ranking.