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Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6

Anthropic·Released 2026-02-17
1.0M ctxMultimodal

About

Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model yet, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work. It excels at iterative development, complex codebase navigation, end-to-end project management with...

Pricing

Input

$3.00

per 1M tokens

Output

$15.00

per 1M tokens

Blended

$6.00

per 1M tokens

Cheaper than 7% of models. Median price is $0.54/1M tokens.

Cost Calculator

Tokens per day1M
100K100M

Daily

$6.00

Monthly

$180.00

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Performance

47

tokens/sec

Faster than 14% of models

0.96

seconds

Faster than 58% of models

0.96

seconds

Faster than 70% of models

Market Median

94 tok/s

50% slower

Median TTFT

1.11s

14% faster

Throughput/Dollar

8

tok/s per $/1M

Speed Comparison

Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, Low Effort)
48 tok/s+0%
Claude 4.5 Sonnet (Non-reasoning)
47 tok/s-0%
Qwen: Qwen3.7 Plus
48 tok/s+1%

Context Window

1.0M

tokens

Larger than 80% of models

Max Output

128K

tokens

13% of context

Benchmarks

MMLU-ProNot evaluated
GPQA Diamond
79.9%
HLE
13.2%
LiveCodeBenchNot evaluated
SciCode
46.9%
TerminalBench Hard
46.2%
MATH-500Not evaluated
AIMENot evaluated
AIME 2025Not evaluated
IFBench
41.2%
Long Context Recall
57.7%
Tau2
79.5%
Market AverageTop Score

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