Claude Sonnet 4.6: Benchmarks, Pricing & Context Window
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a language model from Anthropic, released in February 2026, with multimodal input, a 1M-token context window, and pricing from $3.00/M input and $15.00/M output.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a full upgrade of the model's skills across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design. Users preferred Sonnet 4.6 over Sonnet 4.5 approximately 70% of the time. First
Claude Sonnet 4.6 benchmarks
Capability tiers
Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.
Real tasks performance
High-confidence performance for Claude Sonnet 4.6 across real-world prompt categories. Only 95% intervals at most 4 points wide are shown.
Performance by conversation depth
How Claude Sonnet 4.6 holds up as conversations get longer.
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Claude Sonnet 4.6 Performance Across Datasets
Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts
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Providers
Claude Sonnet 4.6 starts at $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens via Anthropic. See all 2 providers below with their per-token pricing, latency, throughput, and modality support.
| Provider | Input $/M | Cached input $/M | Output $/M | Context in / out | TTFT p95 s | Output p5 c/s | Modalities in / out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Anthropic | $3.00 | — | $15.00 | 200.0K/64.0K | 0.40 | — | / |
 DeepInfra | $3.00 | — | $15.00 | 1.0M/1.0M | — | — | / |
Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 context window
Input and output token limits for Claude Sonnet 4.6, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.
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Claude Sonnet 4.6 latency
Claude Sonnet 4.6 time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live model usage over the trailing 7 days.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 examples
Recent arena outputs from Claude Sonnet 4.6, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 license
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a proprietary model available under its provider's product and API terms.
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Proprietary license - usage restrictions apply
Claude Sonnet 4.6 resources
Official sources for Claude Sonnet 4.6: provider documentation, official playground, official launch post.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs other models
The most-compared alternatives to Claude Sonnet 4.6 are MiMo-V2.5-Pro, Grok-4 Heavy, GPT-5.2. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.
Models like Claude Sonnet 4.6
Models ranked just above and below Claude Sonnet 4.6 by LLM Stats score.
FAQ
Common questions about Claude Sonnet 4.6.