BuildWhat this video covers
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 per million input tokens, about 10x cheaper than Haiku 4.5. Here is the real cost of one customer chat, what that means if you sell chatbots to small businesses, and the 100K-token price trap to avoid.
Key points
New prices (per 1M tokens, prompts up to 100K)
- Claude Haiku 5.5: $0.10 input · $0.50 output
- Claude Haiku 4.5 (old): $1 input · $5 output
Example: one customer chat (6 messages)
9,000 tokens in + ~1,800 tokens out = less than 1 cent.
1,000 chats ≈ $1.80 (old model ≈ $18).
Business side: a client paying $50–$100/month for a chatbot is now almost all profit for setup, updates and support.
The trap: above 100K tokens per prompt, input is $0.50 and output $2.50 (5x). Keep a short, clean FAQ instead of pasting a whole website.
Cached reads: $0.01 per 1M. These are example numbers; your real cost depends on chat length.
Chapters
- 0:00 AI chatbots 90% cheaper
- 0:23 The new prices
- 0:44 What one chat costs
- 1:13 The business side
- 1:25 The 100K price trap
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Prices and offers are as shown in the video and checked when it was made (US, USD, before tax). They change by country and over time, so always check the final cart.
