All comparisons · Prices checked 2026-10-01

GPT-6 Luna vs Claude Haiku 4.5: API cost comparison

For a typical chatbot reply, GPT-6 Luna costs $0.0003 and Claude Haiku 4.5 costs $0.0037 per request: GPT-6 Luna is 10× cheaper. GPT-6 Luna is cheaper in every workload below.

API prices

GPT-6 LunaClaude Haiku 4.5
MakerOpenAIAnthropic
Input / 1M tokens$0.1$1
Output / 1M tokens$0.5$5
Output vs input price5.0×5.0×
Context window922K tokens200K tokens
Tokens for the same English textbaseline (GPT o200k count)~105% of GPT's count (estimate)

Cost by workload

Workload (per 1,000 requests)GPT-6 LunaClaude Haiku 4.5Cheaper
Chatbot reply
short question plus some chat history · 1,500 in / 400 out
$0.350$3.67GPT-6 Luna 10× cheaper
Document Q&A (RAG)
retrieved passages plus a question · 8,000 in / 500 out
$1.05$11.03GPT-6 Luna 10× cheaper
Coding agent step
large working context, short edit · 25,000 in / 800 out
$2.90$30.45GPT-6 Luna 11× cheaper
Summarize a long report
long input, short summary · 20,000 in / 300 out
$2.15$22.58GPT-6 Luna 11× cheaper
Write an article
short brief, long draft · 800 in / 2,000 out
$1.08$11.34GPT-6 Luna 10× cheaper
Bar chart: GPT-6 Luna vs Claude Haiku 4.5 API cost per 1,000 requests for chatbot, RAG, coding agent, summary and article workloads
GPT-6 Luna vs Claude Haiku 4.5: cost per 1,000 requests by workload (USD).

GPT-6 Luna is cheaper on both input and output, so it costs less for every kind of request. The gap is 10× on input and 10× on output once the tokenizer difference is included.

Same text, different token counts. Each company uses its own tokenizer. By our estimate Claude Haiku 4.5 counts about 5% more tokens than GPT-6 Luna for the same English text, and the costs above already include that. Paste your own prompt into the token counter to see both counts.

Monthly cost

Monthly volumeGPT-6 LunaClaude Haiku 4.5
10,000 chatbot replies / month$3.50$36.75
100,000 chatbot replies / month$35.00$368
1,000,000 chatbot replies / month$350$3,675

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Token counts are for English text measured with GPT's tokenizer; each model's own tokenizer difference is applied automatically.

Questions

Which is cheaper, GPT-6 Luna or Claude Haiku 4.5?

For a typical chatbot reply (1,500 input and 400 output tokens), GPT-6 Luna costs $0.0003 and Claude Haiku 4.5 costs $0.0037 per request, so GPT-6 Luna is 10× cheaper. GPT-6 Luna is cheaper in every workload below.

How much do GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 4.5 cost per million tokens?

GPT-6 Luna costs $0.1 per 1M input tokens and $0.5 per 1M output tokens. Claude Haiku 4.5 costs $1 input and $5 output. Prices checked 2026-10-01.

Do both models count the same text as the same number of tokens?

No. Each model family has its own tokenizer, so the same text can be a different number of tokens. The costs on this page already include that difference (estimated from GPT's tokenizer).

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