How did Anthropic Claude Haiku 5.5 do on X?
Anthropic posted the Claude Haiku 5.5 launch from @claudeai on Oct 7, 2026. The post has 6,829,904 views, 45,153 likes, 3,255 reposts, 2,431 quotes and 1,606 replies, an engagement rate of 0.77%. It ranks #132 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks.
Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5: the cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model we’ve ever released. On average, it costs around 75% less to run than Claude Haiku 4.5.
- 39xthe median launch175K median views
- #132of the launches we trackout of 2839
- 3.3xits own following2,081,168 followers
- Views
- 6.8M
- Likes
- 45.2K
- Reposts
- 3.3K
- Quotes
- 2.4K
- Replies
- 1.6K
- Bookmarks
- 5K
What would these views cost to buy?
At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 6.8M views would cost $683K. At Gridd's rate of about $25 per 1,000 views, the same views would cost about $171K.
The post reached about 3.3 views for every follower of @claudeai.
What launched?
Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 5.5, its cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model, costing around 75% less to run than Claude Haiku 4.5.
How does it compare with other launches?
Anthropic Claude Haiku 5.5 has more views than 95% of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks: 39x the median launch's 175K views.
- Anthropic Claude Haiku 5.56.8M
- Median tracked launch175K
- #1: xAI Voice Cloning204M
| Metric | Anthropic Claude Haiku 5.5 | Median launch |
|---|---|---|
| Views | 6.8M | 175K |
| Engagement rate | 0.77% | 0.48% |
| Views per follower | 3.3 | 2.8 |
| Quote posts | 2.4K | 27 |
| Saves per 10K views | 7.3 | 14.2 |
Other Anthropic launches we track: Anthropic Computer use in Claude Cowork (78.4M views), Anthropic Claude Design (64.6M views), Anthropic Claude Fable 5 (57.7M views), Anthropic Cowork (49.9M views), Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (29.7M views), Anthropic Claude Code Security (26.3M views). All 31 Anthropic launches, or every ai launch.
Against launches like it
A launch only means something against comparable ones. These are the groups it belongs to, and where it sits in each.
| Compared with | Launches | Median views | This one | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI launches | 1,462 | 264.5K | 26x | #93 |
| Accounts over 1M followers | 224 | 2.2M | 3.0x | #66 |
| Video launch posts | 1,940 | 192.5K | 35x | #98 |
| Every launch | 2,839 | 175K | 39x | #132 |
What this launch shows
From an account with 2.1M followers, the post reached 3.3 times the account's following. Launches from accounts over 1M followers reach a median of 0.5 times their following, so this one went about 6.1 times further than usual for its size. It ranks 66 of 224 launches from accounts that size.
It drew 2,431 quote posts, 3.6 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. More people than usual added their own take, and a quote post is what carries a launch to audiences the account does not have.
The first line is "Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5: the cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model we’ve ever released.". The post runs 28 words, against a median of 39 for launch posts here, and leads with a video: video launches have a median of 192.5K views, against 137.6K for the rest.
There is no link in the post. Launch posts without a link have a median of 184.9K views in the tracker.
It went out on a Wednesday (UTC). Wednesday launches have a median of 178.8K views; the strongest day is Tuesday at 192.3K.
Every comparison is against the 2839 launches in the tracker, read on Nov 14, 2026. Medians, not averages. See the state of launches on X for the full breakdown.
Questions about this launch
- What is Anthropic?
- In its own words on X: "Claude is an AI assistant built by @anthropicai to be safe, accurate, and secure. Talk to Claude on or download the app." Anthropic posted the Claude Haiku 5.5 launch from @claudeai on Oct 7, 2026.
- How many views did Anthropic Claude Haiku 5.5 get on X?
- 6,829,904 views. Anthropic posted it from @claudeai on Oct 7, 2026, and the post has 45,153 likes, 3,255 reposts, 2,431 quotes, 1,606 replies and 5,012 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
- Was Anthropic Claude Haiku 5.5 a big launch on X?
- It ranks #132 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 95% of them and 39x the median launch's 175K views. Its engagement rate is 0.77%, against a median of 0.48%.
- What would 6.8M views on X cost to buy?
- At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 6.8M views would cost $683K. At Gridd's rate of about $25 per 1,000 views, the same views would cost about $171K.
Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/anthropic-claude-haiku-5-5, read from the post on X on Nov 14, 2026. Free to cite with a link (CC BY 4.0). Get every launch as JSON.