Claude Fable 5$22.000/MClaude Opus 4.8$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.7$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.6$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.5$33.000/MClaude Sonnet 3.7$6.600/MClaude Opus 3$33.000/MClaude 2.1$12.800/MClaude 2$12.800/MGPT-5.5$12.500/MGPT-5.2$5.425/MGPT-5.2-Codex$5.425/MGPT-5$3.875/MGPT-4.5$97.500/MGPT-4 Turbo Preview$16.000/MGPT-4$39.000/MGPT-4-32k$78.000/Mo3$19.000/Mo3-mini$2.090/Mo4-mini$2.090/Mo1$28.500/Mo1-mini$5.700/Mo1-preview$28.500/MGemini 3.5 Pro$5.000/MGemini 3.1 Pro$5.000/MGemini 3 Pro$5.000/MGemini 2.5 Pro$3.875/MGemini 1.5 Pro$2.375/MGemini 1.0 Ultra$12.000/MGemini 1.0 Pro$0.800/MClaude Fable 5$22.000/MClaude Opus 4.8$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.7$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.6$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.5$33.000/MClaude Sonnet 3.7$6.600/MClaude Opus 3$33.000/MClaude 2.1$12.800/MClaude 2$12.800/MGPT-5.5$12.500/MGPT-5.2$5.425/MGPT-5.2-Codex$5.425/MGPT-5$3.875/MGPT-4.5$97.500/MGPT-4 Turbo Preview$16.000/MGPT-4$39.000/MGPT-4-32k$78.000/Mo3$19.000/Mo3-mini$2.090/Mo4-mini$2.090/Mo1$28.500/Mo1-mini$5.700/Mo1-preview$28.500/MGemini 3.5 Pro$5.000/MGemini 3.1 Pro$5.000/MGemini 3 Pro$5.000/MGemini 2.5 Pro$3.875/MGemini 1.5 Pro$2.375/MGemini 1.0 Ultra$12.000/MGemini 1.0 Pro$0.800/M
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Claude Instant 1.2

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Original cheap Claude (Instant). Retired — Haiku is the modern equivalent.

Claude Instant 1.2 is a efficient AI model from Anthropic. It costs $0.800 per million input tokens and $2.400 per million output tokens (blended $1.280/M), with a 100K-token context window.

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INPUT
$0.800/M
per million input tokens
OUTPUT
$2.400/M
per million output tokens
BLENDED 70/30
$1.280/M
default reference rate · how it's calculated →
CONTEXT
100K
100,000 tokens
Benchmarks
No published benchmark scores tracked for this model yet. Frontier and reasoning models from major providers have scores; smaller models and inference-host variants typically inherit the underlying open-weights score.
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Frequently asked questions

How much does Claude Instant 1.2 cost?

Claude Instant 1.2 costs $0.800 per million input tokens and $2.400 per million output tokens, for a blended reference rate of $1.280 per million tokens.

What is Claude Instant 1.2's context window?

Claude Instant 1.2 supports up to 100K tokens of context (100,000 tokens).

What is Claude Instant 1.2 best for?

Original cheap Claude (Instant). Retired — Haiku is the modern equivalent.

Who makes Claude Instant 1.2?

Claude Instant 1.2 is developed and served by Anthropic.