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MindsDB retired its base Claude Haiku listing

By , Co-founder, PricingSaaS

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MindsDB removed the unversioned Claude Haiku model, replaced by Claude Haiku 5.5.

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MindsDB’s pricing page · Change detected

What changed

Pulse detected the change on Nov 13, 2026: the unversioned ‘Claude Haiku’ entry disappeared from MindsDB's per-token pricing catalog, and ‘Claude Haiku 5.5’ now sits in that table row, just below Claude Fable 5 and above Claude Haiku 4.5.

Claude Haiku 5.5 is not new to the catalog — MindsDB added it on Nov 7, 2026 at $0.10 input and $0.50 output per 1M tokens, according to Pulse's tracked history of the page. The unversioned listing it replaces in that table position is gone; MindsDB's catalog now carries one fewer Claude Haiku entry at that price point.

Why it matters

For a product leader stress-testing their own AI-model rate card, this is a small example of catalog cleanup: MindsDB removed the unversioned 'Claude Haiku' entry and now lists the versioned 'Claude Haiku 5.5' at $0.10 input and $0.50 output per 1M tokens in its place, so buyers see one clearly named SKU instead of an alias.

MindsDB's catalog has moved fast this year: Pulse has tracked 30 real pricing changes to its page since Mar 9, 2026, roughly one every 8 days. A cleanup like this one reads as routine upkeep, and no price moved in this diff.

Watch whether MindsDB repeats the pattern on its other unversioned aliases as newer point releases arrive.

In context

MindsDB has been reshaping this rate card constantly: Pulse has tracked 30 real pricing changes since tracking began on Mar 9, 2026, averaging one every 8 days, most of them new-model additions like Muse Ember 1.0 two days earlier or Claude Haiku 5.5 itself on Nov 7. This one is rarer — a removal rather than an addition, tidying up a duplicate-priced alias rather than moving a number. Usage-based catalogs like MindsDB's sit inside a broader shift: 377 pricing changes in the last 180 days touched credits-and-usage billing, 12.3% of everything tracked in that window, according to Pulse's record. The sharper read: a catalog maintained this actively treats an unversioned alias as temporary scaffolding, not a permanent SKU — worth a look if your own usage-based pricing still carries aliases nobody has retired.

Common questions

Did MindsDB actually change the Claude Haiku price in this move?

No — this diff only swaps which model name sits in that table row; price history should be checked against each model's own line rather than inferred from the removal alone.

What should teams pinned to the unversioned 'Claude Haiku' name do?

Repoint any pinned references to 'Claude Haiku 5.5' — it's the model now sitting in that catalog row; the unversioned alias is gone and MindsDB shows no sign it will return.

Should competitors read this as a trend to copy?

Not on its own — a single unversioned-to-versioned swap doesn't establish a pattern; what's worth tracking is whether MindsDB repeats it across its other model rows that still carry an unversioned alias alongside a newer, identically priced release.

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