Claude Sonnet 4.6 Adaptive is an AI model from Anthropic. Claude Sonnet 4.6 with adaptive reasoning at maximum effort, scaling thinking depth dynamically for complex tasks.
Specifications
Canonical IDanthropic-claude-4-6-sonnet-adaptive
StatusActive
CreatorAnthropicAnthropic
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
51.7
#18
Coding Index
GPQA
0.9
#29
HLE
0.3
#24
IFBench
0.6
#118
Time to First Token
49.80s
#479
SciCode
0.5
#31
LCR
0.7
#15
TerminalBench Hard
0.5
#6
TAU2
0.8
#120
Output TPS
65.4
#177

Capabilities

Input0/5
Text·
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output0/5
Text·
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities0/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling·
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Claude Sonnet 4.61.0M$3.00$15.00Available
Claude Sonnet 4.51.0M$3.00$15.00Available
Claude Sonnet 41.0M$3.00$15.00Deprecated
Claude Sonnet 4.6 AdaptiveCurrent
Claude Sonnet 4.5Available
Claude Sonnet 4.6 Non-Reasoning Low EffortAvailable
Claude Sonnet 4Available
Claude Sonnet 4.1200K$3.00$15.00Available
Claude Sonnet 3.7200KAvailable
Claude Sonnet 3.7200K$3.00$15.00Deprecated
Claude Sonnet 3.5 V2200K$3.00$15.00Deprecating

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Claude Opus 4.8Opus1.0M$5.00$25.00
Claude Opus 4.8 FastOpus1.0M$10.00$50.00
Claude Opus 4.7 FastOpus1.0M$30.00$150.00
Claude Opus 4.7Opus1.0M$5.00$25.00
Claude Opus 4.6Opus1.0M$5.00$25.00
Claude Opus 4.5Opus410K$5.00$25.00
Claude Haiku 4.5Haiku200K$1.00$5.00
Claude Opus 4.1Opus200K$15.00$75.00

Model IDs

anthropic-claude-4-6-sonnet-adaptive
claude-sonnet-4-6-adaptive