Claude Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's language model with a 1.0M context window and up to 128K output tokens, available from 10 providers, starting at $3.00 / 1M input and $15.00 / 1M output. A capable Claude 4.6 Sonnet model with reasoning, vision, and tool-use support for a wide range of applications.
Specifications
Canonical IDanthropic-claude-4-6-sonnet
TypeLanguage
StatusDeprecating
CreatorAnthropicAnthropic
Providers
Context Window1.0M tokens
Max Output128K tokens
Input ModalitiesImagePDFText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefaultminimal
Tool Use Overhead346 tokens
Release Date · 8 months ago
Knowledge Cutoff · 1 year ago
Training Data Cutoff
Deprecation Date
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
#76
Coding Index
#35
GPQA
#67
HLE
#73
IFBench
#138
Time to First Token
#413
SciCode
#61
LCR
#42
TerminalBench Hard
#9
TAU2
#124
Output TPS
#208

Capabilities

Input3/5
Text✓
Image✓
Audio·
Video·
PDF✓
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities9/13
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✓

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandardBatch
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Cache Write 5m
$ / 1M
Cache Write 1h
$ / 1M
Web Search
$ / request
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Cache Write 5m
$ / 1M
Web Search
$ / request
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Amazon Bedrock
global.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6
$3.00$15.00$0.3$3.75$6.00N/A$1.50$7.50N/AN/AN/A
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Anthropic
claude-sonnet-4-6
$3.00$15.00$0.3$3.75$6.00N/A$1.50$7.50N/AN/AN/A
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Azure AI Foundry
azure_ai/claude-sonnet-4-6
$3.00$15.00$0.3$3.75$6.00N/A—————
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Databricks
databricks/databricks-claude-sonnet-4-6
$3.00$15.00$0.3$3.75N/AN/A—————
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DeepInfra
deepinfra/anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
$3.00$15.00N/AN/AN/AN/A—————
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Google Vertex AI
vertex_ai/claude-sonnet-4-6
$3.00$15.00$0.3$3.75$6.00N/A$1.50$7.50N/AN/AN/A
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OpenRouter
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
$3.00$15.00$0.3$3.75$6.00$0.010N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6:batch
——————$1.50$7.50$0.15$1.88$0.010
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Perplexity
perplexity/anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
$3.00$15.00$0.3N/AN/AN/A—————
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Snowflake
claude-sonnet-4-6
$3.60$18.00$0.3N/AN/AN/A$1.80$9.00N/AN/AN/A
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Vercel AI Gateway
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
$3.00$15.00$0.3$3.75N/AN/A—————

Cost Calculator

US Dollar ($)
Preset:

Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Claude Sonnet 5.51.0M$2.00$10.00Available
Claude Sonnet 51.0M$2.00$10.00Deprecating
Claude Sonnet 5.5 Batch—1.0M$1.00$5.00Available
Claude Sonnet 5.5 US Gov—1.0M$2.40$12.00Available
Claude Sonnet 4.61.0M$3.00$15.00Current
Claude Sonnet 4.51.0M$3.00$15.00Deprecated
Claude Sonnet 41.0M$3.00$15.00Deprecated
Claude Sonnet 4.6 Adaptive————Available
Claude Sonnet 4.5————Available
Claude Sonnet 4.6 Non-Reasoning Low Effort————Available
Claude Sonnet 4————Available

Other Models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
Claude Opus 5.5Opus1.0M$4.00$20.00
Claude Fable 5.1—1.0M$10.00$50.00
Claude Opus 5Opus1.0M$5.00$25.00
Claude Fable 5Fable1.0M$10.00$50.00
Claude Fable 5.3Fable————
Claude Mythos 5Mythos—1.0M$10.00$50.00
Claude Mythos 5.1Mythos—1.0M$10.00$50.00
Claude Opus 4.8Opus1.0M$5.00$25.00
Claude Opus 4.7Opus1.0M$5.00$25.00
Claude Opus 4.6Opus1.0M$5.00$25.00

Model IDs

anthropic-claude-4-6-sonnet
anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6:batch
apac.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6
au.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6
azure_ai/claude-sonnet-4-6
claude-sonnet-4-6
claude-sonnet-4-6-adaptive
claude-sonnet-4-6-non-reasoning-low-effort
databricks/databricks-claude-sonnet-4-6
deepinfra/anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
eu.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6
global.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6
jp.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6
openrouter/anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
openrouter/anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6:batch
perplexity/anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
publishers/anthropic/models/claude-sonnet-4-6
publishers/google/models/claude-sonnet-4-6
snowflake/claude-sonnet-4-6
us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6
vertex_ai/claude-sonnet-4-6
vertex_ai/claude-sonnet-4-6@default