Claude Haiku 5.5 vs LFM2.5-24B-A2B

Prices checked

Claude Haiku 5.5 takes 3 of 5 rounds against LFM2.5-24B-A2B. It is also the cheaper of the two to run, at $0.20 per million tokens against $0.21.

AnthropicWins 3 rounds

Claude Haiku 5.5

1M context · tool calling · reads images

$0.20/M tokens

Anthropic's own price · 9¢ per 1,000 pages

Liquid AI

LFM2.5-24B-A2B

128k context · tool calling · open weights

$0.21/M tokens

Liquid AI's own price · 7.2¢ per 1,000 pages

Maker's price in (lower wins)

$0.10/M

$0.05/M

Maker's price out (lower wins)

$0.50/M

$0.70/M

Cheapest price (lower wins)

none below the maker

none below the maker

Maker's price, blended (lower wins)

$0.20/M

$0.21/M

Cost per 1,000 pages (lower wins)

9¢

7.2¢

Context

1M tokens

128k tokens

Open weights

no

yes

Tool calling

yes

yes

Structured output

yes

yes

Reads images

yes

no

Reasoning

yes

yes

Released

7 Oct 2026

13 Oct 2026

Providers selling it

42

7

Price we measure against

the maker's own

the maker's own

Trains on your prompts (no is better)

no provider to check

no provider to check

Providers selling both · 6

  • NanoGPT$0.20 / $0.04
  • Kilo Gateway$0.20 / $0.21
  • LLMTR$0.20 / $0.21
  • Nous Portal$0.20 / $0.21
  • OpenRouter$0.20 / $0.21
  • Vercel AI Gateway$0.20 / $0.21

Claude Haiku 5.5, then LFM2.5-24B-A2B, per million tokens.

Go further

Add a third or fourth model, or change the weighting, in the tool.

What moved this week

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    $0.10 / $0.50 $0.13 / $0.65

Frequently asked

Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 5.5 or LFM2.5-24B-A2B?
Claude Haiku 5.5, at $0.20 per million tokens against $0.21 for LFM2.5-24B-A2B, blended 3 in : 1 out, read on 31 Oct 2026.
Where is each one cheapest?
Claude Haiku 5.5: nobody sells it below the maker's own price with a stated reason, so $0.20 is the number to beat. LFM2.5-24B-A2B: nobody sells it below the maker's own price with a stated reason, so $0.21 is the number to beat.
Can I buy both from one provider?
Yes. 6 providers sell both: NanoGPT, Kilo Gateway, LLMTR, Nous Portal, OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway. The cheapest of them for the two together is NanoGPT.
Which holds more context?
Claude Haiku 5.5, at 1M tokens against 128k.

Prices exclude tax, read 31 Oct 2026 from each provider's own catalog. They are per M tokens, blended 3 in : 1 out, and a page is 600 tokens in and 60 out. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.

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