Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 appears live in model selector alongside Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5
On Oct 7, 2026, @AndrewCurran_ reported that Haiku 5.5 was live for him, sharing a screenshot of a model selector listing Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, and Haiku 5.5, with Haiku 5.5 shown as selected. A 9to5Mac report by Zac Hall identifies Anthropic as the vendor of the newly live Haiku 5.5 model. An attached benchmark table credits Haiku 5.5 with gains over Haiku 4.5 and GPT-6 Luna on GDPval-AA v2.1, OSWorld 2.1, Terminal-Bench 4.0, and other evaluations.
On Oct 7, 2026, @AndrewCurran_ reported that Haiku 5.5 was live for him, sharing a screenshot of a model selector listing Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, and Haiku 5.5, with Haiku 5.5 shown as selected. A 9to5Mac report by Zac Hall identifies Anthropic as the vendor of the newly live Haiku 5.5 model. An attached benchmark table credits Haiku 5.5 with gains over Haiku 4.5 and GPT-6 Luna on GDPval-AA v2.1, OSWorld 2.1, Terminal-Bench 4.0, and other evaluations.
Key facts
- @AndrewCurran_ reported on Oct 7, 2026 that Haiku 5.5 was live for him.
- A screenshot posted by @AndrewCurran_ shows a model selector listing three options: Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, and Haiku 5.5, with Haiku 5.5 shown as selected.
- The selector describes Opus 5.5 as for complex work and everyday tasks, Sonnet 5.5 as most efficient for simpler tasks, and Haiku 5.5 as fastest for quick answers.
- Anthropic is identified as the vendor of the newly live Haiku 5.5 model per a 9to5Mac report by Zac Hall shared via @9to5mac and an @MTSlive post linking to the announcement.
- An attached benchmark table shows Haiku 5.5 scoring 1620 on GDPval-AA v2.1, versus 735 for Haiku 4.5 and 1437 for GPT-6 Luna, with Sonnet 5.5 listed at 1840.
- The table shows Haiku 5.5 at 72.4% on OSWorld 2.1 computer use (offline subset), versus 15.7% for Haiku 4.5 and 48.9% for GPT-6 Luna.
- The table shows Haiku 5.5 at 39.2% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 agentic coding, versus 0.0% for Haiku 4.5 and 16.4% for GPT-6 Luna.
- The table shows Haiku 5.5 at 45.9% without tools and 57.4% with tools on Humanity's Last Exam, and 46.4% on FrontierCode 1.1 (Main) agentic coding.
- The table shows Haiku 5.5 at 46.4% on Chartography visual reasoning without tools, versus 6.4% for Haiku 4.5 and 29.1% for GPT-6 Luna.
- The report of Haiku 5.5 being live is based on a single user's screenshot.
- Anthropic is the vendor of the newly live Haiku 5.5 model, per a 9to5Mac report by Zac Hall shared via @9to5mac and an @MTSlive post linking to the announcement.
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9to5Mac@9to5macPost on X ·
Anthropic upgrades Claude with new Haiku 5.5 model, details here https://t.co/aNHiEnlExW by @apollozac
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MTS@MTSlivePost on X ·
SITUATION DETECTED: Anthropic Claude Haiku 5.5 is live. https://t.co/jiFzviCP0C
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Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_Post on X ·
Haiku 5.5 is live for me right now. https://t.co/zjA5SKMkom
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