Claude Haiku 5.5 API in Russia — no VPN, no foreign card
Claude Haiku 5.5 is, per Anthropic, the fastest current Claude, built for high-volume work where latency matters. Connect through RuAPI: pay in USDT from $5, no subscription, your key right after sign-up.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key="sk-...",
base_url="https://www.ruapi.ai/v1",
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="claude-haiku-5-5",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)Replace sk-... with a key from the RuAPI Console — the model claude-haiku-5-5 is already set.
Claude Haiku 5.5 API price
Current price in US dollars — the same as on the pricing page. Pay in USDT, pay as you go, no subscription.
| model | input $ / 1M | output $ / 1M |
|---|---|---|
| claude-haiku-5-5 | $0.12 cache read $0.0120 >100K: $0.60 | $0.60 >100K: $3.00 |
Input is the regular price of input tokens, “cache read” is the price of input tokens served from the prompt cache, output is the price of output tokens. The price in your account may be lower.
The grey “>100K” line is the vendor’s official tier for long prompts: when a prompt exceeds the threshold, the whole request is billed at that tier.
What is Claude Haiku 5.5
Haiku 5.5 sits at the fast end of the Claude lineup, built for high request volumes and latency-sensitive tasks. Anthropic lists classification, data extraction, routing and subagent work among them.
Unlike Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5, Haiku 5.5 lets you turn thinking off, which suits simple operations that need no reasoning. It keeps the same 1M-token context and the same inputs (text, images, PDF), and you can call it through the Anthropic SDK (https://www.ruapi.ai) or the OpenAI SDK (https://www.ruapi.ai/v1).
Claude Haiku 5.5 specs
| Developer | Anthropic |
| Model ID in the RuAPI API | claude-haiku-5-5 |
| Context window | 1M tokens |
| Max output | 128K tokens |
| Input | text, images, PDF |
| Output | text |
| Reasoning mode | yes |
| Tool calling | yes |
| Prompt caching | yes |
| Status | generally available |
| Protocols on RuAPI | OpenAI (/v1/chat/completions) · Anthropic (/v1/messages) |
Specs are from Anthropic’s official documentation (platform.claude.com), checked Oct 22, 2026.
What it’s good for
- Classifying and tagging tickets, reviews and emails
- Extracting data from text, images and PDFs into JSON
- Routing requests between models and workflows
- Subagents that handle quick helper steps in agent systems
When another model is a better fit
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 — When Haiku isn't smart enough: Anthropic calls Sonnet the best mix of speed and intelligence.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite — Google's fast model for the same high-volume work: document parsing, translation, data extraction.
Claude Haiku 5.5: price on RuAPI and elsewhere
| RuAPI | AITUNNEL | ProxyAPI | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input, $ per 1M tokens | $0.12 | ≈ $0.244 | ≈ $0.366 |
| Output, $ per 1M tokens | $0.60 | ≈ $1.22 | ≈ $1.83 |
AITUNNEL and ProxyAPI prices are from their public pages as of Oct 22, 2026 (ProxyAPI prices include VAT, as on their site), converted at the Bank of Russia rate (81.97 ₽ per $1). The RuAPI price is current.
How to connect Claude Haiku 5.5 from Russia
- Sign up at ruapi.ai — with email, Google or Yandex. No VPN needed.
- Top up with USDT or USDC from 5 USDT. No USDT yet? Buy it with rubles via SBP — step by step in the docs.
- In the Console, open API Keys → Create key.
- Use the address https://www.ruapi.ai/v1 and the model claude-haiku-5-5. For the Anthropic SDK and Claude Code, the address is https://www.ruapi.ai, without /v1.
FAQ
See also: Claude API in Russia · Documentation · Claude Fable 5.1 · Claude Opus 5.5 · Claude Sonnet 5.5