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Cursor Adds Claude Haiku 5.5 With 10x Lower Short-Request Pricing

October 7, 2026 at 14:17 EDT

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Cursor has made Claude Haiku 5.5 available in its model picker, giving developers access to Anthropic's new low-cost small model from Settings > Models. The rollout matters because short requests in Cursor are billed at one-tenth of Claude Haiku 4.5's per-token price, while the underlying platform model moves Haiku into the 1M-token context tier.

Oct. 7, 2026 · Anthropic

Haiku gets a lower-cost lane in Cursor

Claude Haiku 5.5 is now selectable in Cursor, with short-request token pricing at one-tenth of Haiku 4.5 and a role aimed at fast, repeated agent work.

10x

Lower short-request per-token price than Haiku 4.5

Token context window on Anthropic's platform

48.4%

CursorBench at max effort

75%

Average runtime cost reduction vs Haiku 4.5

Short-request input price, drawn to scale

One block represents $0.10 per million input tokens. Lower is cheaper.

$0.10

Haiku 5.5
up to 100k

$1.00

Haiku 4.5
standard

Where the model fits

Pick Haiku 5.5

Cursor Settings > Models

→

Run repeat work

Summaries, routing, extraction

→

Escalate hard tasks

Sonnet and Opus still lead on harder coding

Why developers care

Cheap, fast subagents make repeated work such as summaries, lookups and classification less costly to run at scale.

What to check

Prompts above 100k tokens bill at 5x, and teams still need fallbacks for critical routing or classification pipelines.

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