Who in their right mind would use haiku while Mimo or GLM cost 10% of what they are charging with much smarter models?

Isn't the point of this release that it's comparable?

AAI Index // Input // Output

Haiku 5.5: 43 // $0.10 // $0.50

Mimo 2.6 Pro: 46 // $0.43 // $0.87

Mimo 2.6 Flash: 38 // $0.10 // $0.28

Seems competitive to me? Plus then I don't have to manage multiple providers

That's not what any benchmarks that look at cost per task or similar says in terms of cost. The Chinese models, generally speaking, might be cheaper per token but need a lot more tokens to get there.

Some people/organizations are ideologically opposed to using Chinese models. Not me, I use GLM-5.3-Flash for almost everything (the subscription-subsidized pricing on a legacy Z.ai plan makes it the best value model by a wide margin), along with some MiMo and DeepSeek. Still, I use Luna for certain tasks where speed is more valuable than performance; I can see this new Haiku displacing Luna for those. If you mean Haiku 4.5 though I agree, that model was a waste of time and money.

On subscription pricing a $20 Anthropic subscription gives >$500 equivalent tokens, which is not so different, and you get smarter models. API pricing has decent margins.

And Opus 5.5 is really good.

Presumably everyone who doesn't bother integrating a third party API key into their harness, which would probably be most of the Claude Code users.

Where do you get this 10% number? Checking providers I know/respect, and GLM 5.3 flash is $0.15/m. Haiku is $0.10/m.

Well, unless you're using OpenCode Go, it's per-token costs (even if already super low), while Haiku falls under the Claude sub. It's just more straight forward and you aren't feeling a "loss" with the sub.

There really aren't any models at 10% of the price of Luna or Haiku.

People who are stuck using Bedrock in-geo due to their company policy (me).