Claude haiku 5.5 Leaks: Beats Opus
>Anthropic officially shipped Opus 5.5 on Sept 22, then Sonnet 5.5 just two days ago on Sept 28
>Sonnet 5.5 runs 30%+ faster than Sonnet 5 and costs up to 30% less per task, per Anthropic
>Sonnet 5.5 is the first Sonnet model to get cyber safeguards similar to Fable/Opus tier
>Haiku 5.5 is confirmed next, Anthropic's own words: "in the coming weeks" no date, no price, no model ID yet
>With Fable, Opus, and Sonnet, Anthropic now has a full counterpart lineup to Astra, Sol, and Luna
>Haiku is expected to be the value play, closing >Anthropic's remaining pricing gap vs OpenAI's cheaper tiers
Could Haiku 5.5 end up being the best value model in Anthropic's whole lineup?