Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6

Public pricingIntelligence 83/100Huge memoryVisionDeep thinkingTool use

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a multimodal model for coding, software engineering, and agent workflows. It combines multimodal input handling and strong coding performance with a 1M+ tokens context window and a premium profile. Use it for coding, software engineering, and agent workflows when accuracy, context, and control matters.

Input

$3.00/1M

Output

$15.00/1M

Cached

$0.30/1M

Batch

$1.50/1M

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Technical specifications

Claude Sonnet 4.6 at a glance.

Memory

1,000,000

tokens

Max reply

128,000

tokens

Memory tier

Huge

multiple books or whole repositories

Tokenizer

anthropic

Released

Feb 2026

Training cutoff

Jul 2025

Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

Benchmarks

Quality benchmarks

Independent evaluations from public leaderboards. Higher is better.

  • swe_bench_verified

    79.6

  • aa_intelligence_index

    52

  • frontiermath_tier_4

    8.3

  • gpqa_diamond

    87.37

What it can do

Capabilities & limits.

  • Understands images
  • Deep step-by-step thinking
  • Uses tools / calls functions
  • Strict JSON output
  • Streams replies
  • Fine-tunable on your data

When to pick Claude Sonnet 4.6

  • Multi-step reasoning, research agents, or hard math.
  • Screenshot analysis, image understanding, or document OCR.
  • Agentic workflows that call tools or APIs.
  • Long documents, full codebases, or extensive chat histories.

When to look elsewhere

  • Very latency-sensitive, real-time apps where every millisecond counts.

Alternatives

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FAQ

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At a typical workload of 50,000 conversations a month with 1,500-token prompts and 800-token replies, Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs roughly $825 per month. Input is $3.00 /1M tokens and output is $15.00 /1M tokens.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 has a 1,000,000-token context window (huge memory — multiple books or whole repositories). That means you can fit about 187,500 words of input and history in a single call.
Beyond text generation, Claude Sonnet 4.6 supports understanding images, deep step-by-step reasoning, calling functions / tools, strict JSON output. It streams replies by default.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 was released in February 2026, with training data cut off around July 2025.
Models in a similar class include Claude 3.7 Sonnet (thinking), Claude Sonnet 4, Claude Sonnet 4.5. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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