Claude Sonnet 4
by AnthropicChatretired 2026-06-15
Optimal balance of intelligence, cost, and speed
- Context
- 200K tokens
- Max output
- 64,000 tokens
- Released
- 2025-05-22
- Weights
- Closed
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4 · also seen as databricks-claude-sonnet-4, apac.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-20250514-v1:0, eu.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-20250514-v1:0, global.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-20250514-v1:0, +9 more
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2025-05-22
- Weights
- Closed
- Input
- Text, Image, PDF
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 200,000 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 64,000
- Providers
- 12 + 11 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- 141.7 ± 2.2 against price
- Direct price range
- $3.00–$3.30 in · $15.00–$16.50 out per 1M tokens · 6 of 12 providers have a comparable price
More details
- Last updated
- 2026-01
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-03-31
- Developer country
- United States of America
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel tools
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt caching
- Web searchunknown
- Computer use
- System messages
- Assistant prefill
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
Atom feedNo change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $3.00 in / $15 out per 1M tokens at DigitalOcean on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
Cost calculator
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Similarly priced models
Blended rate per 1M tokens, each at its own cheapest provider (10M input : 2M output mix).
| Model | Blended/1M | In/1M | Out/1M | Context | vs Claude Sonnet 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Sonnet 4.5Anthropic | $4.50 | $2.70 | $13.50 | 200K | +0% |
| Grok 4xAI | $4.50 | $2.70 | $13.50 | 256K | +0% |
| GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI | $4.58 | $2.50 | $15 | 1.05M | +2% |
| Nova PremierAmazon | $4.17 | $2.50 | $12.50 | 1M | −7% cheaper |
| Claude Sonnet 3.5Anthropic | $5.00 | $3.00 | $15 | 200K | +11% |
| Claude Sonnet 3.7Anthropic | $5.00 | $3.00 | $15 | 200K | +11% |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic | $5.00 | $3.00 | $15 | 1M | +11% |
| Sonar ProPerplexity | $5.00 | $3.00 | $15 | 200K | +11% |
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