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Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, Low Effort)

AnthropicClaude

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
image, pdf, text

Capability Radar

29
general
44
coding
80
reasoning
53
scienceest.
80
agents
80
multimodal

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

Rankings

Domain#RankScoreSource
Agentic Capability58
55.0
LS
Code Ranking66
73.0
AA
General Ranking131
59.0
AA
Reasoning68
58.0
LS
Science119
58.0
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

Intelligence Index
34.3
Gpqa
0.8
Tau2
0.8
Lcr
0.6
Scicode
0.4
Terminalbench Hard
0.4
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
Math
70
Multimodal
70
Search
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/sec60.4
Time to First Token1.13s
Time to Answer1.13s

Provider Price Ranking

Provider Price Ranking

12 providers

Cheapest: AnthropicMost Expensive: Venice AI
ProviderInputOutput
1AnthropicPRIMARY
$3
$15
2302.AI
$3
$15
3Abacus
$3
$15
4OpenCode Zen
$3
$15
5FrogBot
$3
$15
6AIHubMix
$3
$15
7LLM Gateway
$3
$15
8Azure
$3
$15
9Auriko
$3
$15
10FreeModel
$3
$15
11Neon
$3
$15
12Venice AI
$3.6
$18

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