Claude Fable 5$22.000/MClaude Opus 4.8$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.7$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.6$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.5$33.000/MClaude Sonnet 3.7$6.600/MClaude Opus 3$33.000/MClaude 2.1$12.800/MClaude 2$12.800/MGPT-5.5$12.500/MGPT-5.2$5.425/MGPT-5.2-Codex$5.425/MGPT-5$3.875/MGPT-4.5$97.500/MGPT-4 Turbo Preview$16.000/MGPT-4$39.000/MGPT-4-32k$78.000/Mo3$19.000/Mo3-mini$2.090/Mo4-mini$2.090/Mo1$28.500/Mo1-mini$5.700/Mo1-preview$28.500/MGemini 3.5 Pro$5.000/MGemini 3.1 Pro$5.000/MGemini 3 Pro$5.000/MGemini 2.5 Pro$3.875/MGemini 1.5 Pro$2.375/MGemini 1.0 Ultra$12.000/MGemini 1.0 Pro$0.800/MClaude Fable 5$22.000/MClaude Opus 4.8$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.7$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.6$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.5$33.000/MClaude Sonnet 3.7$6.600/MClaude Opus 3$33.000/MClaude 2.1$12.800/MClaude 2$12.800/MGPT-5.5$12.500/MGPT-5.2$5.425/MGPT-5.2-Codex$5.425/MGPT-5$3.875/MGPT-4.5$97.500/MGPT-4 Turbo Preview$16.000/MGPT-4$39.000/MGPT-4-32k$78.000/Mo3$19.000/Mo3-mini$2.090/Mo4-mini$2.090/Mo1$28.500/Mo1-mini$5.700/Mo1-preview$28.500/MGemini 3.5 Pro$5.000/MGemini 3.1 Pro$5.000/MGemini 3 Pro$5.000/MGemini 2.5 Pro$3.875/MGemini 1.5 Pro$2.375/MGemini 1.0 Ultra$12.000/MGemini 1.0 Pro$0.800/M
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Claude Sonnet 4.6

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Frontier-grade Claude at one fifth of Opus pricing. The default workhorse for most production traffic on the Anthropic API.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a multimodal AI model from Anthropic. It costs $3.000 per million input tokens and $15.000 per million output tokens (blended $6.600/M), with a 1M-token context window.

Released Nov 2025Modalities text, visionOfficial model page ↗Provider pricing ↗API docs ↗Compare with another model →Estimate monthly cost →
INPUT
$3.000/M
per million input tokens
OUTPUT
$15.000/M
per million output tokens
BLENDED 70/30
$6.600/M
default reference rate · how it's calculated →
CONTEXT
1M
1,000,000 tokens
What it's good at
  • Best price/performance in the Claude family
  • 1M-token context
  • Strong vision
  • Reliable function calling
Typical use cases
  • Production chat apps
  • Document understanding
  • RAG pipelines
  • Cost-sensitive coding
Benchmarks
vs. best public score
MMLU86%
Multitask academic knowledge across 57 subjects.
GPQA Diamond75%
Graduate-level science questions, "Google-proof".
MATH89%
High-school competition math problems.
HumanEval92%
Python function synthesis from docstrings.
SWE-bench Verified65%
Real GitHub issues solved end-to-end.
LMArena Elo1352 Elo
Crowd-sourced head-to-head preference Elo rating.
Hand-curated from each provider's published reports and public leaderboards. Methodology varies across sources — treat as directional rather than authoritative.
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Frequently asked questions

How much does Claude Sonnet 4.6 cost?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs $3.000 per million input tokens and $15.000 per million output tokens, for a blended reference rate of $6.600 per million tokens.

What is Claude Sonnet 4.6's context window?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 supports up to 1M tokens of context (1,000,000 tokens).

What is Claude Sonnet 4.6 best for?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is well suited to Best price/performance in the Claude family, 1M-token context and Strong vision.

Who makes Claude Sonnet 4.6?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is developed and served by Anthropic. It was released in Nov 2025.