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Claude Sonnet 4.6

Hybrid reasoning model with fast, capable intelligence for real-time agents and high-volume work, featuring a 1M context window

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a specific Anthropic Claude Sonnet model release announced on Feb 17, 2026, described as a full upgrade across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design, with a 1M token context window in beta.

Pricing

Official site · Aug 10, 2026, 7:24 AM
Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$15.00
Cached input / 1M
$0.30

All prices are USD per million tokens (MTok). For Claude Sonnet 4.6, 5-minute cache writes are $3.75/MTok, 1-hour cache writes are $6/MTok, and cache hits & refreshes are $0.30/MTok.

Anthropic's official Claude Platform pricing documentation lists Claude Sonnet 4.6 model pricing in USD per million tokens: $3/MTok base input, $15/MTok output, and $0.30/MTok cache hits & refreshes. It also lists prompt cache writes at $3.75/MTok for 5 minutes and $6/MTok for 1 hour.

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Model Intelligence

Context window
1,000,000 tokens
Arena ranking
37
Benchmarkable
Yes
Model level
release
Intelligence Index
36.8
GPQA
0.8
HLE
0.13
SciCode
0.47
IFBench
0.41
LCR
0.62
TerminalBench Hard
0.46
TAU2
0.8

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