Claude Haiku 4.5 brings near-frontier agents to Anthropic's cheapest tier
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5 with Sonnet 4-level coding, stronger computer use, lower pricing, and support for orchestrated multi-agent workloads.
TOWARD DOOM40confidence 90/100
Why it moved the index
Near-frontier coding and computer-use capability became cheaper, faster, and suitable for parallel agent orchestration, directly increasing diffusion and competitive pressure.
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Assessment history
- R1Toward 40 · confidence 90
New source-verified historical release absent from durable context.
11 Aug 2026