🔥Claude Sonnet 4.6

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Pricing data updated:  Prices normalized to USD per 1M tokens Sample workload: 1M input + 500K output
Model Specs
ProviderAnthropic
Model IDanthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
Prompt Price
per 1M tokens		$3
Completion Price
per 1M tokens		$15
Sample Workload Cost
1M input + 500K output		$10.5
Context Window1M
Release Date2026-02-17
Popularity Rank#3
Daily Demand257B tokens

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Unit prices $3 input / $15 output Per 1M tokens

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Model Introduction

Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model yet, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work. It excels at iterative development, complex codebase navigation, end-to-end project management with...

Best Fit

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is best suited for long-context workloads.

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A 1M input token plus 500K output token workload is estimated at $10.5.

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