{"i":24,"slug":"haiku-retry-or-escalate","chart":{"id":"retry-escalate-call-cost-by-task","title":"List-price cost of one call, Haiku 4.5 vs Sonnet 5.5, on each hard task (calculation)","subtitle":"Median of each task’s calls, default effort, Claude Code","kind":"grouped-bar","unit":"usd","yLabel":"USD per call","series":[{"name":"Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Code","points":{"$k":["label","value","n"],"$r":[["Interval merge fix",0.01789,3],["DST day length",0.0293,3],["CSV parser",0.02919,3],["Event-loop order",0.03708,3],["Room schedule",0.03578,3],["SemVer regex",0.04217,3],["Money refactor",0.02039,3],["SQLite report query",0.03648,3]]}},{"name":"Claude Sonnet 5.5 · Claude Code","points":{"$k":["label","value","n"],"$r":[["Interval merge fix",0.00557,3],["DST day length",0.02532,3],["CSV parser",0.01464,3],["Event-loop order",0.01588,3],["Room schedule",0.01243,3],["SemVer regex",0.00514,3],["Money refactor",0.00961,3],["SQLite report query",0.01719,3]]}}],"note":"Calculation: reported tokens × list price for each call, then the median per task; the calls ran on a flat subscription. Haiku’s list price per token is lower. Its median calls cost more and contained more output tokens. This does not isolate the effect of effort or thinking. 3 calls per task and configuration; the table shows each call-cost range, not a confidence interval.","sourceIds":["calc-repricing","agent-provider-h2h-hard","agent-effort-ladder","price-anthropic"]}}