From the Labs Lab publication
System Card: Claude Haiku 5.5
System card for Claude Haiku 5.5, Anthropic's small-model release of October 2026, condensed relative to its frontier cards. It reports Responsible Scaling Policy and cyber evaluations, harmlessness evaluations covering harmful requests, child safety, suicide and self-harm, disordered eating and bias, agentic safety, an automated behavioural audit that includes sycophancy and encouragement of user delusion, a model welfare assessment and capability benchmarks including HealthBench, HealthBench Professional and PhysicianBench. Results are reported separately for the API without a system prompt and for claude.ai with Anthropic's system prompt.
Suicide and self-harm, single turn (Table 4.3.1.A): harmless rate 99.61% on the API without a system prompt and 100% on claude.ai, over-refusal 0% and 0.41%; multi-turn appropriate-response rate (Table 4.3.1.B) 70% (plus or minus 9) on the API and 90% (plus or minus 9) on claude.ai, against 46% and 71% for Claude Haiku 4.5 and 60% and 100% for Claude Sonnet 5.5.
Anthropic · 7 Oct 2026 · Read the entry