Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5: our latest small model.
Five months ago, Claude Sonnet 4 was state-of-the-art. Today, Haiku 4.5 matches its coding performance at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed.
Haiku 4.5 surpasses Sonnet 4 on computer use tasks, making Claude for Chrome even faster.
In Claude Code, it makes multi-agent projects and rapid prototyping markedly more responsive.
Sonnet 4.5 remains the best coding model in the world. Haiku 4.5 gives you near-frontier performance with greater cost-efficiency.
Use them together: Sonnet can build multi-step plans, then orchestrate a team of Haikus to complete subtasks in parallel.
Devs can use Claude Haiku 4.5 on our API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI.
It’s a drop-in replacement for both Haiku 3.5 and Sonnet 4.
Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5—the best coding model in the world.
It's the strongest model for building complex agents. It's the best model at using computers. And it shows substantial gains on tests of reasoning and math.
We're also releasing upgrades for Claude Code.
The terminal interface has a fresh new look, and the new VS Code extension brings Claude to your IDE.
The new checkpoints feature lets you confidently run large tasks and roll back instantly to a previous state, if needed.
Claude can use code to analyze data, create files, and visualize insights in the files & formats you use. Now available to all paid plans in preview.
We've also made the Claude for Chrome extension available to everyone who joined the waitlist last month.
We've published a detailed postmortem on three infrastructure bugs that affected Claude between August and early September.
In the post, we explain what happened, why it took time to fix, and what we’re changing:
In early August, some users began reporting degraded responses.
It was initially hard to distinguish this from normal variation in user feedback. But the increasing frequency and persistence prompted us to open an investigation.
To state it plainly: We never reduce model quality due to demand, time of day, or server load.
The problems our users reported were due to infrastructure bugs alone.