Claude Sonnet 4.6
Last verified July 24, 2026 · Anthropic pricing ↗$3.00/1M input · $15.00/1M output · 1.0M context · Anthropic
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When to use Claude Sonnet 4.6
The best balance of intelligence and speed in the Claude family. Fast enough for real-time chat, smart enough for complex coding tasks. Default choice for most Claude API integrations.
- Fast responses with strong intelligence
- 200K context window
- Great at coding, analysis, and conversation
- Good cost-to-performance ratio
- Supports vision and tool use
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Pricing Details
AnthropicIncludes the full 1M context window at standard pricing (no long-context surcharge). Adaptive reasoning is a request-time mode, not a separate billed model. Last Sonnet on the previous tokenizer; Sonnet 5 emits ~30% more tokens for the same text. Batch: $1.50/$7.50. Cache hit: $0.30/MTok.
Input / 1M tokens
$3
Output / 1M tokens
$15
Context Window
1.0M
Max Output
64K
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