Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) vs ScaleDown: Extract
Neither wins outright: Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) is the pick when you need tool / function calling, ScaleDown: Extract when cost matters at scale.
Monthly cost at list price for five common workloads. Token counts per unit are stated so you can scale them to your own traffic. A workload that does not fit a model's context window is marked rather than priced.
Workload (per month)
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch)
ScaleDown: Extract
Difference
Customer-support chatbot
50,000 conversations — each a 6-turn conversation (1,500 in / 400 out tokens)
$8.75
$3.00
ScaleDown: Extract saves $5.75
RAG search over documents
20,000 questions — each a question answered from ~8 retrieved passages (6,000 in / 500 out tokens)
$8.50
$4.80
ScaleDown: Extract saves $3.70
Coding / tool-using agent
2,000 tasks — each a multi-step task with tool calls and file context (60,000 in / 6,000 out tokens)
$9.00
$4.80
ScaleDown: Extract saves $4.20
Batch summarisation
10,000 documents — each a 6,000-word report summarised to a page (8,000 in / 600 out tokens)
$5.50
$3.20
ScaleDown: Extract saves $2.30
Long-document analysis
500 documents — each a 150-page contract or codebase read in one pass (100,000 in / 2,000 out tokens)
$2.75
$2.00
ScaleDown: Extract saves $0.75
Capabilities side by side
Capability
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch)
ScaleDown: Extract
What it lets you do
Tool / function calling
✓ Yes
—
call your APIs and run agent loops
Structured output (JSON schema)
✓ Yes
—
return JSON that validates against your schema
Reasoning / thinking mode
✓ Yes
—
spend extra tokens thinking before answering hard problems
Image input
✓ Yes
✓ Yes
read screenshots, charts and scanned pages
Audio input
—
—
take speech or audio directly
File / PDF input
✓ Yes
✓ Yes
accept documents without your own parsing step
Image output
—
—
generate images, not just text
Built-in web search
✓ Yes
—
answer from live web results
Seed (reproducible sampling)
—
—
repeat a generation for tests and evals
Log-probabilities
—
—
read token confidence for classification and scoring
From each model's published parameters and input/output types. “—” means not advertised, not proven absent.
Price history
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch): price unchanged since we started tracking it on 2026-10-08.
ScaleDown: Extract: price unchanged since we started tracking it on 2026-10-14.
Which should you choose?
Choose Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) if…
you need tool / function calling — to call your APIs and run agent loops; ScaleDown: Extract does not advertise it
you need structured output (JSON schema) — to return JSON that validates against your schema; ScaleDown: Extract does not advertise it
you need reasoning / thinking mode — to spend extra tokens thinking before answering hard problems; ScaleDown: Extract does not advertise it
you need built-in web search — to answer from live web results; ScaleDown: Extract does not advertise it
Choose ScaleDown: Extract if…
cost matters at scale — it is 70% cheaper on a typical 3:1 input/output mix ($3.00 vs $8.75 a month for 50,000 support chats)
you generate long outputs in one go — up to 900K tokens (about 675,000 words) per response
Frequently asked questions
Is Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) better than ScaleDown: Extract?
Neither wins outright: Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) is the pick when you need tool / function calling, ScaleDown: Extract when cost matters at scale. In short: Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) when you need tool / function calling, you need structured output (JSON schema), you need reasoning / thinking mode, you need built-in web search; ScaleDown: Extract when cost matters at scale, you generate long outputs in one go.
Which is cheaper, Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) or ScaleDown: Extract?
ScaleDown: Extract is cheaper: $0.03 vs $0.10 per 1M tokens at a typical 3:1 input/output mix, 70% less. For 50,000 support conversations a month that is $3.00 against $8.75.
How much do Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) and ScaleDown: Extract cost per million tokens?
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) costs $0.05 per 1M input tokens and $0.25 per 1M output tokens; ScaleDown: Extract costs $0.04 input and $0 output. Output tokens are billed separately, so long answers shift the gap.
Which has the bigger context window, Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) or ScaleDown: Extract?
Both take 1M tokens per request — roughly 1,500 pages of text.
Do Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) and ScaleDown: Extract support function calling and JSON output?
Tool calling — Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch): yes, ScaleDown: Extract: not advertised. JSON-schema structured output — Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch): yes, ScaleDown: Extract: not advertised.
Can Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) or ScaleDown: Extract read images?
Yes, both accept image input.
Is Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) or ScaleDown: Extract free to use?
No free variant is listed for either; both are pay-per-token.
What is the maximum output length of Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) and ScaleDown: Extract?
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) can write up to 128K tokens (about 96,000 words) per response; ScaleDown: Extract up to 900K (about 675,000 words).
When were Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) and ScaleDown: Extract released?
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) was listed on 2026-10-07; ScaleDown: Extract on 2026-10-13.
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