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Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)

AnthropicClaudeProprietary

Description

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a full upgrade of the model's skills across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design. Users preferred Sonnet 4.6 over Sonnet 4.5 approximately 70% of the time. First Sonnet-class model with 1M token context window (beta) and context compaction. Major improvement in computer use skills compared to prior Sonnet models. Default model on Free and Pro plans. Pricing: $3/$15 per million tokens (input/output).

Release Date
2026-02-17
Parameters
Context Length
1.0M
Modalities
audio, image, pdf, text, video

Capability Radar

31
general
46
coding
80
reasoning
55
scienceest.
80
agents
80
multimodal

Science uses a reasoning proxy when dedicated science benchmarks are unavailable.

Rankings

Domain#RankScoreSource
Code Ranking38
75.0
AA
General Ranking123
60.0
AA
Science99
61.0
AA

Benchmark Scores (LLM Stats)

Agents

GDPval-AA1417.00 / 3000SR
BrowseComp74.7%SR
OSWorld72.5%SR
Finance Agent63.3%SR
MCP Atlas61.3%SR
Terminal-Bench 2.059.1%SR
Finance Agent v251.0%SR
Legal Agent Benchmark5.4%SR

Biology

GPQA89.9%SR

Code

SWE-Bench Verified79.6%SR

Communication

Tau2 Telecom97.9%SR
Tau2 Retail91.7%SR

General

MMMLU89.3%SR
MMMU-Pro75.6%SR
LiveBench75.5%SR

Math

Humanity's Last Exam49.0%SR

Reasoning

ARC-AGI v258.3%SR

AA Evaluation Indices

Coding Index
46.4
Intelligence Index
35.9
Gpqa
0.8
Tau2
0.8
Lcr
0.6
Scicode
0.5
Terminalbench Hard
0.5
Ifbench
0.4
Hle
0.1

LLM Stats Category Scores

Legal
100
Finance
100
General
100
Agents
100
Reasoning
75
Language
90
Physics
90
Biology
90
Chemistry
90
Communication
90
Frontend Development
80
Tool Calling
80
Search
70
Math
70
Multimodal
70
Code
70
Spatial Reasoning
60
Vision
60
Long Context
40
Healthcare
20

Pricing

Input Price$3 / 1M tokens
Output Price$15 / 1M tokens
Blended Price (3:1)$6 / 1M tokens
Cache Read Price$0.3 / 1M tokens
Cache Write Price$3.75 / 1M tokens

Speed

Tokens/sec49.1
Time to First Token1.03s
Time to Answer1.03s

Provider Price Ranking

Provider Price Ranking

23 providers

Cheapest: AnthropicMost Expensive: Cortecs
ProviderInputOutput
1AnthropicCheapest
$0
$0.00002
2Poe
$2.6
$13
3NanoGPT
$2.992
$14.994
4Perplexity Agent
$3
$15
5OpenRouter
$3
$15
6ZenMux
$3
$15
7Kilo Gateway
$3
$15
8Cloudflare AI Gateway
$3
$15
9GitHub Copilot
$3
$15
10AIHubMix
$3
$15
11Vertex (Anthropic)
$3
$15
12Requesty
$3
$15
13DigitalOcean
$3
$15
14Vercel AI Gateway
$3
$15
15Vertex
$3
$15
16FastRouter
$3
$15
17Databricks
$3
$15
18NEAR AI Cloud
$3
$15
19GMI Cloud
$3
$15
20OrcaRouter
$3
$15
21Merge Gateway
$3
$15
22Amazon Bedrock
$3.3
$16.5
23Cortecs
$3.59
$17.92

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