Claude Instant 1.2
Legacy
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 100,000-token context window.
INPUT
$0.800/M
per million input tokens
OUTPUT
$2.400/M
per million output tokens
CONTEXT
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 100,000 tokens of context in a single request.
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.