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  Claude Haiku 5.5 Pricing: The 100K Line Behind the 90% Cut

  Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens, a tenth of Haiku 4.5's $1 and $5. That holds for prompts up to 100,000 tokens. Above that line, the whole request is billed at $0.50 and $2.50, which is half of Haiku 4.5's price rather than a tenth. Anthropic puts the typical saving at around 75%, not 90%, and the difference comes from three things this post works through: where your prompts fall relative to the 100K line, how many thinking tokens the d

  October 8, 20268 min readOpinion
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  Claude Haiku 5.5 Effort Levels: Medium Is the Default, Low Is Often Enough

  Claude Haiku 5.5 is the first Haiku with an effort setting, and the setting moves the bill more than anything else you control. In Artificial Analysis's independent runs, Haiku 5.5 at max effort scored 43 on its Intelligence Index and at low effort scored 29. Max also used 440 million output tokens to get through the index; low used 32 million. So the short answer: leave most work at the default, medium. Drop high-volume, simple routes to low. Raise knowledge work and strict instruction follow

  October 8, 20268 min readTutorial
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  Claude Haiku 5.5 vs Haiku 4.5: What Ten Cents Now Buys

  Claude Haiku 4.5 scored 0.0% on Terminal-Bench 4.0. Claude Haiku 5.5 scores 39.2%, and it costs a tenth as much per token: $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens, against $1 and $5 for Haiku 4.5. That is the upgrade in one line. The small Claude model went from "fine for classification, not for agents" to a usable subagent, and its price now matches OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna to the cent. Anthropic released it on October 7, 2026 as Claude Haiku 5.5, model ID claude-haiku-5

  October 8, 20268 min readNews
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  Page Assist in Practice: Four Everyday Browser Workflows with Local and Cloud Models

  Most AI chat tools live in their own tab. You copy text out of a page, paste it into a chat window, and copy the answer back. Page Assist removes that round trip: it is an open-source browser extension that opens a model in a sidebar next to whatever page you are reading, plus a full-tab web UI for longer conversations. It started as a front end for local models running in Ollama, and that is still the default. But it also accepts any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, which means the same sidebar can

  October 8, 20269 min readTutorial
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  Migrating to GPT-6.1 Sol: 9 Things That Can Go Wrong

  Moving from GPT-6 Sol to 6.1 Sol looks like a one-line change, and the price is the same. But there are a few breaking changes and some shifts in behavior, so changing only the model name can get you errors, a surprise bill, or an agent that behaves differently. OpenAI's GPT-6 migration guide covers most of the official changes. This post adds the things that tend to bite in practice. They're ordered from "fails loudly" to "fails quietly." 1. reasoning_effort: "none" returns a 400 What you'l

  September 30, 20268 min readTutorial
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  What GPT-6.1 Sol Really Costs: Beyond the $2 / $10 Price Tag

  GPT-6.1 Sol has the same list price as GPT-6 Sol: $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. Your actual bill depends on three other things: how often you hit the cache, whether you cross 272K input tokens, and how many reasoning tokens the model burns. This post goes through each one. The full price list Standard rates (per 1M tokens) GPT-6.1 Sol GPT-6 Sol GPT-6 Astra GPT-6 Luna Input $2.00 $2.00 $10.00 $0.10 Cached input $0.10 $0.20 $1.00 $0.01 Cache wri

  September 30, 20267 min readOpinion
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  Choosing a Reasoning Effort for GPT-6.1 Sol: low to max

  GPT-6.1 Sol has five reasoning effort levels: low, medium (the default), high, xhigh, and max. The big change from GPT-6 Sol is that none and minimal are gone, so low is now the floor. This one setting drives both latency and cost. You never see reasoning tokens, but you pay for them at the output rate ($10 per million for 6.1 Sol on AIHubMix), and they take up room in the context window. Pick the wrong level and you can easily pay several times more than you need to. What each level is for

  September 30, 20266 min readTutorial
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  GPT-6.1 Sol vs GPT-6 Sol: A One-Week Upgrade That Nearly Catches Astra

  OpenAI shipped GPT-6.1 Sol at DevDay on September 29, 2026. The timing is striking: GPT-6 Sol had been out for exactly one week (it launched September 22 alongside Luna), and the flagship GPT-6 Astra was less than a month old. The official model page sums up the pitch in one line: "Near-Astra performance for complex work at a lower cost." Concretely, that means agentic coding, computer use, and professional tasks at roughly Astra quality, for one fifth of Astra's per-token price. This post ans

  September 30, 20267 min readNews
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  AIHubMix Adds Claude Sonnet 5.5: An Upgrade for Everyday Work at Unchanged Token Prices

  A 1-million-token context window, input at $2 and output at $10 per million tokens, with browser access and a shared gateway to multiple model providers. AIHubMix now offers Claude Sonnet 5.5, Anthropic's latest Sonnet model. Users can access it through AIHubMix Playground or compatible applications for writing, organizing information, preparing presentation content, and other everyday work. Compared with Sonnet 5, Anthropic reports faster output generation, clearer writing, and more efficient

  September 29, 20263 min read
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  Xiaomi MiMo v2.6 Pro Quick Start: Three Steps from Browser to Code

  Update (October 23, 2026): mimo-v2.5-pro was retired on 21 October 2026, and AIHubMix no longer accepts requests for it. Use mimo-v2.6-pro, which costs the same. The quick answer: open https://playground.aihubmix.com/ in your browser, type a question, press send. No installing, no coding, and free trial calls without entering a card. Key points * The model is mimo-v2.6-pro, made by Xiaomi, released 22 September 2026 * You can use it in a browser for free before deciding anything * It read

  September 28, 20264 min read