Claude Sonnet 4.6

Name: Claude Sonnet 4.6
Price: 3 USD
Author: Anthropic

Claudev4.6Current

Anthropic(ai lab)

Released February 17, 2026

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OpenTools Scorenormalized /100

7.7

Valuescore / $M

OpenTools Score

Context1M tokens

Price (In / Out)$3.00/M / $15.00/M

CategoryMultimodal LLM

Max Output128K tokens

About Claude Sonnet 4.6

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a multimodal llm from Anthropic. Supports up to 1,000,000 token context window. Achieves 88.0% on MMLU. Available from $3.00/M input tokens.

Capabilities

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Input Modalities

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Output Modalities

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Technical Details

API Identifier: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
Category: Multimodal LLM
Context Window: 1,000,000 tokens
Max Output Tokens: 128,000 tokens

Benchmarks

Performance scores for Claude Sonnet 4.6 across standard benchmarks.

MMLU

88%

HumanEval

93.7%

MATH

79.5%

GPQA

68.9%

Pricing

Token pricing for Claude Sonnet 4.6 API usage.

Input Tokens

$3.00/M

per million tokens

Output Tokens

$15.00/M

per million tokens

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Input tokens/month

Output tokens/month

Input cost$3.00

Output cost$7.50

Estimated monthly cost$10.50

Cache read: $0.3000/M tokens

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