Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
Analysis Summary
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 sits in the Professional tier on our leaderboard, ranked #10 of 557 published models on overall intelligence. At $3.00 input and $15.00 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers an exceptionally large context window suited to long-document workflows and supports tool use, function calling, vision, and reasoning.
Editorial notes
Claude Sonnet 4.6 from Anthropic pairs excellent coding performance with a 1M token context, vision, and reliable tool use at a mid-tier price point for professional workflows.
Assessed May 14, 2026
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Performance Profile
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..
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
|
| Provider | anthropic |
| Release Date | February 17, 2026 |
| Context Length | 1,000,000 tokens |
| Max Completion | 128,000 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $3.00 | $0.003000 |
| Output | $15.00 | $0.015000 |
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