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Claude Haiku vs Sonnet: 5.5 pricing, routing and reasoning tradeoffs
Compare Haiku 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 for classification, extraction and agent work, including Haiku’s 100,000-token pricing threshold.
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- I chose an original conceptual illustration of contrasting workflows and a shared review point to support this specific comparison. It is a visual metaphor for the decision, not product-performance evidence.
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Original Headless Thrones editorial illustration for "Claude Haiku vs Sonnet: 5.5 pricing, routing and reasoning tradeoffs". Decision context: Haiku 5.5 is the economical starting point for constrained high-volume tasks; Sonnet 5.5 is a useful escalation candidate when ambiguity or multi-step work makes errors expensive. Visual metaphor: a forked paper pathway through a miniature library and workshop. Adapt the objects to the specific comparison: software construction, research evidence, agent state, document editing, plan capacity or automation as relevant. Show a tradeoff and a shared verification step, not a declared winner. Refined editorial gouache with fine architectural ink, tactile paper, coherent miniature scale. Warm cream #f4f1e8, forest #263d35, sage #9aaa81, ocean teal #103d4a and restrained ochre. Landscape 3:2, clear original composition and breathing room. No text, letters, numbers, logos, watermarks, people, robots, fake product screenshots or benchmark charts. Clearly an imagined AI-generated illustration, not a technical architecture diagram or evidence of real performance.
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