Small Subagent Models
Fast, cost-sensitive models handle bounded subtasks, routing and high-volume processing within larger agent workflows.
Compare the cost of accepted results, including retries and supervision. Provider-published pricing and task examples are useful inputs; Type Safe has not independently validated provider benchmark comparisons.
- Snapshot date
- Last verified
Type Safe editorial opportunity score
- Type Safe editorial opportunity score
- 8.1 / 10
- Trend
- New
- Evidence strength
- High
Scored out of 10 to prioritize directory coverage and research. The score is not a customer rating, product quality measurement, or independent benchmark result.
Verified facts
Verified fact · official documentation
Anthropic positions Claude Haiku 5.5 for high-volume, cost-sensitive work, including classification, summarization, routing and bounded subagent tasks.
Verified fact · official documentation
Anthropic’s published Claude Platform pricing is $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens for prompts up to 100K tokens; longer prompts use $0.50 input and $2.50 output per million tokens.
Type Safe editorial judgments
Editorial judgment · directory opportunity
Task-specific comparisons should include accepted-output quality, latency distribution and total orchestration cost. This score expresses a directory opportunity, not an independent model performance result.
Watch items
Watch item · further verification needed
Anthropic benchmark claims remain provider evidence. Recheck prices, caching terms and model revisions when designing a workflow.
Representatives
Claude Haiku 5.5
Small hosted model for subagent workAvailableVerifiedAnthropic lists availability and pricing; evaluate task fit with your own acceptance criteria.
Collection targets
- Small hosted models
- Routing models
- Subagent evaluation harnesses
Recommended fields
- Version, context and tool support
- Input/output price, caching and batch terms
- Latency, retry rate and accepted-output cost
Use cases
- High-volume classification and summarization
- Bounded coding subtasks and request routing
Page opportunities
Type Safe editorial judgment
- Task-specific small model comparisons
- Subagent routing and fallback templates
Sustainability
Type Safe editorial judgment
Volume-driven workloads create recurring demand when quality thresholds and supervision costs are explicit.
Monetization opportunities
Type Safe editorial judgment
- Editorial opportunity: evaluation guides
- Editorial opportunity: maintained routing templates
Risks and open verification questions
- Low token prices can hide retries and coordination costs.
- Provider benchmarks and latency claims may not transfer to real workloads.
Open verification questions
- Anthropic benchmark claims remain provider evidence. Recheck prices, caching terms and model revisions when designing a workflow.
This is a dated research snapshot. Access, versions, commercial terms and task performance can change. Recheck official documentation and test your own tasks before adoption or release.