Anthropic lists 40 models and Recursive 1. Below: line-up, price tiers, the cheapest model for each capability, and what each costs for five real workloads.
| Anthropic | Recursive | |
|---|---|---|
| Models listed | 40 | 1 |
| Models with published pricing | 40 | 1 |
| Typical price (median, 3:1 blend per 1M) | $6.00 | n/a |
| Cheapest paid model | Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) ($0.10) | n/a |
| Longest context | Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 (1M) | Recursive: Flint (free) (262K) |
| Free models | 0 | 1 |
| Newest model | Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (2026-10-07) | Recursive: Flint (free) (2026-10-21) |
| Price changes in the last 90 days | 0 | 0 |
For each workload: the cheapest model from each provider that can actually do it (fits the context window; tool calling required for the agent), and its monthly cost at list price.
| Workload (per month) | Anthropic | Recursive |
|---|---|---|
| Customer-support chatbot 50,000 conversations — each a 6-turn conversation | $8.75 with Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) | no suitable model |
| RAG search over documents 20,000 questions — each a question answered from ~8 retrieved passages | $8.50 with Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) | no suitable model |
| Coding / tool-using agent 2,000 tasks — each a multi-step task with tool calls and file context | $9.00 with Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) | no suitable model |
| Batch summarisation 10,000 documents — each a 6,000-word report summarised to a page | $5.50 with Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) | no suitable model |
| Long-document analysis 500 documents — each a 150-page contract or codebase read in one pass | $2.75 with Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) | no suitable model |
| You need | Anthropic | Recursive |
|---|---|---|
| Any model | Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) ($0.10) | none listed |
| With tool calling | Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) ($0.10) | none listed |
| With image input | Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) ($0.10) | none listed |
| With reasoning mode | Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) ($0.10) | none listed |
| 128K+ context | Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) ($0.10) | none listed |
| 1M+ context | Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) ($0.10) | none listed |
| Model type | Anthropic | Recursive |
|---|---|---|
| text+image+file->text | 38 | 0 |
| text+image->text | 2 | 0 |
| text->text | 0 | 1 |
| Price per 1M (3:1 blend) | Anthropic | Recursive |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 0 | 1 |
| Under $0.50 | 2 | 0 |
| $0.50 – $3 | 6 | 0 |
| $3 – $10 | 16 | 0 |
| $10 and up | 16 | 0 |
It depends on the job: Anthropic offers the broader line-up (40 models vs 1), Anthropic the longest context (1M tokens). The workload table above shows which wins for chat, RAG, agents, batch jobs and long documents.
Anthropic: Anthropic lists 40 models and Recursive lists 1.
Anthropic: Anthropic's longest is Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 at 1M tokens; Recursive's is Recursive: Flint (free) at 262K.
Anthropic: none. Recursive: 1 free model (e.g. Recursive: Flint (free)).
Anthropic: 40 of 40 models accept images. Recursive: 0 of 1.