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

4.5

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

textvisioncodetool use

Input Modalities

textimage

Output Modalities

text

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.

MMLUAnthropic · Feb 2026

86.7%

GPQA DiamondAnthropic · Feb 2026

89.9%

SWE-bench VerifiedAnthropic · Feb 2026

72.5%

Terminal-Bench 2.0Anthropic · Feb 2026

51%

MATH 500Anthropic · Feb 2026

54.2%

LiveCodeBenchAnthropic · Feb 2026

41.5%

Berkeley Function CallingAnthropic · Feb 2026

88.3%

HLEOpenRouter · Feb 2026

30%

GPQA-AA EloArtificial Analysis · Feb 2026

1674%

GPQA DiamondArtificial Analysis

79.899%

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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