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Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)

AnthropicClaude

Description

Claude Sonnet 4, part of the Claude 4 family, is a significant upgrade to Claude Sonnet 3.7. It excels in coding (72.7% on SWE-bench) and reasoning, responding more precisely to instructions. Sonnet 4 offers an optimal mix of capability and practicality, with enhanced steerability, and supports extended thinking with tool use.

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

Capability Radar

44
general
61
coding
88
reasoning
62
scienceest.
70
agents
80
multimodal

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

Rankings

Domain#RankScoreSource
Code Ranking18
85.0
AA
General Ranking54
74.0
AA
Science37
75.0
AA

Benchmark Scores (LLM Stats)

Agents

Terminal-Bench35.5%SR

Biology

GPQA75.4%SR

Code

SWE-Bench Verified72.7%SR

Communication

TAU-bench Retail80.5%SR
TAU-bench Airline60.0%SR

General

MMMLU86.5%SR
MMMU74.4%SR

Math

AIME 202570.5%SR

AA Evaluation Indices

Coding Index
63.0
Intelligence Index
47.2
Gpqa
0.9
Tau2
0.8
Terminalbench V2 1
0.7
Lcr
0.7
Ifbench
0.6
Terminalbench Hard
0.5
Scicode
0.5
Tau Banking
0.3
Hle
0.3

LLM Stats Category Scores

Language
90
Math
80
Physics
80
General
80
Biology
80
Chemistry
80
Multimodal
70
Reasoning
70
Frontend Development
70
Healthcare
70
Communication
70
Tool Calling
70
Vision
70
Code
50
Agents
40

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/sec79.0
Time to First Token107.18s
Time to Answer107.18s

Provider Price Ranking

Provider Price Ranking

18 providers

Cheapest: PoeMost Expensive: Cortecs
ProviderInputOutput
1PoeCheapest
$2.6
$13
2NanoGPT
$2.992
$14.994
3AnthropicPRIMARY
$3
$15
4Perplexity Agent
$3
$15
5OpenRouter
$3
$15
6ZenMux
$3
$15
7Kilo Gateway
$3
$15
8Cloudflare AI Gateway
$3
$15
9GitHub Copilot
$3
$15
10Requesty
$3
$15
11DigitalOcean
$3
$15
12Vercel AI Gateway
$3
$15
13FastRouter
$3
$15
14NEAR AI Cloud
$3
$15
15GMI Cloud
$3
$15
16OrcaRouter
$3
$15
17Merge Gateway
$3
$15
18Cortecs
$3.59
$17.92

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