Claude Sonnet 4.6
by AnthropicChatretires not before 2027-02-17
Claude workhorse for coding agents, careful analysis, and production cost control
- Context
- 1M tokens
- Max output
- 128,000 tokens
- Released
- 2026-02-17
- Weights
- Closed
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6 · also seen as anthropic-claude-4.6-sonnet, databricks-claude-sonnet-4-6, us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6, au.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6, +16 more
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2026-02-17
- Weights
- Closed
- Input
- Text, Image, PDF
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 1,000,000 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 128,000
- Providers
- 26 + 30 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- 152.4 ± 2.3 against price
- Direct price range
- $3.00–$4.13 in · $15.00–$20.63 out per 1M tokens · 25 of 26 providers have a comparable price
More details
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-08-31
- 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 search
- 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 Anthropic on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026, the earliest refresh this model's headline price can be rebuilt from. 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 4.6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Sonnet 3.5Anthropic | $5.00 | $3.00 | $15 | 200K | +0% |
| Claude Sonnet 3.7Anthropic | $5.00 | $3.00 | $15 | 200K | +0% |
| Sonar ProPerplexity | $5.00 | $3.00 | $15 | 200K | +0% |
| Sonar Pro SearchPerplexity | $5.00 | $3.00 | $15 | 200K | +0% |
| Grok 3xAI | $5.00 | $3.00 | $15 | 131K | +0% |
| Grok 4xAI | $5.00 | $3.00 | $15 | 262K | +0% |
| MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeedXiaomi | $5.08 | $4.35 | $8.70 | 1.05M | +2% |
| Qwen 3.8 Max PrimeAlibaba (Qwen) | $5.33 | $4.00 | $12 | 1M | +7% |
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