Retired Apr 2026
Claude Haiku 3
Anthropic's smallest Claude 3 model, released March 2024 and designed for high-throughput tasks like classification and data extraction.
Key Specifications
- Context window
- 200K tokens
- Max output
- 4K tokens
- Knowledge cutoff
- Released
- Inputs
- Text, image
- Capabilities Show details
- Function calling Connect to external tools, APIs, and systems. Structured output Return responses in structured formats like JSON.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Claude Haiku 3 good for?
High-volume classification and data extraction. It took text and images, and was the cheapest of the Claude 3 generation.
When is Claude Haiku 3 not a good fit?
Any new work: Anthropic retired it in April 2026. Closed weights, so no self-hosting, and its short maximum output and old knowledge kept it to brief answers about older material.
How does Claude Haiku 3 compare with Claude Haiku 3.5?
Anthropic says Claude Haiku 3.5 keeps the speed of Claude Haiku 3 but improves across every skill, with coding as its strong point, better instruction following and more accurate tool use. Same 200K-token context and text and image input. Claude Haiku 3 came out 7 months earlier and has an older knowledge cutoff (August 2023 against July 2024) and a smaller max output (4K against 8K tokens).
Can I self-host Claude Haiku 3?
No. Anthropic does not publish the weights; Claude Haiku 3 is available only through hosted APIs.
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