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Anthropic's price list sells Claude Haiku 3.5 on two clouds. Both switched it off months ago

Published: 9/16/2026 · Source: Amazon Bedrock documentation — Claude 3.5 Haiku model card

This catalogue recently left a loose end hanging. Anthropic's price list carries Claude Haiku 3.5 as retired everywhere except Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud, while Google Cloud had published a shutdown date of 5 July 2026 for that same model. One of the two documents had to be out of date. So we went and read the clouds themselves. Amazon Bedrock's model card for Claude 3.5 Haiku, read on 16 September 2026, gives a model EOL date of 19 June 2026. Bedrock's own lifecycle rules state what EOL means there: after that date the model is removed from all AWS Regions and requests made to it fail. Google Cloud's partner-model deprecation page gives 5 July 2026 — sixteen days later, and also in the past. Anthropic's own API stopped answering on 19 February 2026. That is every place the model ran. There is no fourth. The price list, checked the same day, still names both clouds, and it is not a stub entry. The model keeps a full rate card: base input, both cache-write tiers, cache hits, output, and separate batch pricing. A developer reading that page today would reasonably conclude the model can still be bought from a partner. It cannot. Because a single stale line proves little, we checked the other three models flagged the same way. Claude Sonnet 4 holds up: Bedrock lists it in the Legacy state with an EOL date of 14 October 2026, and it entered paid extended access on 14 July. Claude Opus 4.1 holds up: Legacy, EOL 8 January 2027. Claude Opus 4 is flagged as retired except on Google Cloud, and that narrower claim is also right — Google Cloud still shows it as generally available, while Bedrock's catalogue no longer carries a model card for it at all. One claim in four is wrong, and it concerns the oldest and cheapest model of the group. The pattern is worth naming, because it cuts both ways. A vendor's price list describes what the vendor intends to sell; the partner clouds decide, on their own calendars, what they actually serve. Neither document is authoritative about the other. For a model that has left the producer's own API, the availability line in a price list is the weakest evidence available, and the partner's lifecycle page is the strongest. One correction of our own belongs here. Our profile of Claude 3 Haiku, the 2024 model, said it fell silent everywhere on 23 August 2026, when Google Cloud shut it down. Bedrock kept serving it to an EOL date of 10 September 2026 — eighteen days longer, and only six days before this article. The profile has been fixed, along with the four others named above.