Claude Haiku 5.5 vs Solar Mini 4: cost comparison
Prices updated 2026-10-27 · computed from live provider data
Short answer: Solar Mini 4 is cheaper on a
3:1 input/output blend — $0.087 per million tokens versus
$0.100, a 12% difference.
Claude Haiku 5.5 offers the larger context window at 1,000,000 tokens, against 524,288 for Solar Mini 4.
Head to head
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | Solar Mini 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input, per 1M tokens | $0.050 | $0.050 |
| Output, per 1M tokens | $0.250 | $0.200 |
| Blended 3:1, per 1M | $0.100 | $0.087 |
| Context window | 1,000,000 | 524,288 |
| Vendor | anthropic | upstage |
Monthly cost at real volumes
| Workload (input / output) | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Solar Mini 4 |
|---|---|---|
| 1M in / 250K out | $0.113 | $0.100 |
| 10M in / 2.5M out | $1.12 | $1.00 |
| 100M in / 25M out | $11.25 | $10.00 |
Which should you pick?
Pick Claude Haiku 5.5 when you need the longer context window (1,000,000 vs 524,288 tokens). Pick Solar Mini 4 when price per token dominates your workload — high-volume classification, extraction, or batch summarisation.