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Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6

anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6

35th smartest of 179ReasoningToolsJSONVision
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Intelligence
42.6
35th of 179
Design Elo
1328
Website
Speed
46
185th fastest
Latency
997ms
first token
Input price
$3.00
264th cheapest
Context
1M
128K max out

How it compares

Smarter than80%
of all ranked models
Faster than40%
of all ranked models
Cheaper than11%
of all ranked models

Overview

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...

Benchmarks

independent · via OpenRouter
Artificial Analysis78th percentile
Intelligence Index
42.6
Coding Index
43.0
Agentic Index
57.5
GPQA Diamond
80%
Humanity's Last Exam
11%
SciCode
44%
Tau²-Bench (agentic)
79%
Design Arena · Elo17,392 tournaments
Website
1328
codecategories
1327
UI Component
1321
3D
1320
Game Dev
1318
Data Viz
1316
fullstack
1286
godotgamedev
1277
asciiart
1271
mobileapps
1265
webapps
1260
svg
1255
androidnative
1237
agenticgamedev
1200

Providers & pricing (8)

ProviderIn $/MOut $/MUptime
Amazon Bedrock$3.00$15.00
Anthropic$3.00$15.00100%
Google$3.00$15.0099.8%
Google$3.00$15.00100%
Azure$3.00$15.00
Google$3.00$15.0099.2%
Anthropic$3.00$15.00100%
Amazon Bedrock$3.00$15.00100%

Specifications

Context window1M
Max output128K
Knowledge cutoff
Input modalitiestext, image, file
Output modalitiestext
Prompt caching
Cache read price$0.300/M
ModeratedYes

Claude Sonnet 4.6 FAQ

How much does Claude Sonnet 4.6 cost?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens via OpenRouter, making it 264th cheapest of 298 paid models.

How smart is Claude Sonnet 4.6?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores 42.6 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, ranking 35th of 179 benchmarked models, with a GPQA Diamond score of 80%.

How fast is Claude Sonnet 4.6?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 generates around 46 tokens per second with 997ms time-to-first-token (p50), the 185th fastest tracked model.

What is Claude Sonnet 4.6's context window?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 supports a 1M-token context window and can output up to 128K tokens. It accepts text, image, file input.

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