Claude Sonnet 4.6
FrontierMultimodalAPI Available
Benchmark Scores
91/100MMLU91.5
HumanEval94
Math85.2
Reasoning90.8
Coding93.5
About Claude Sonnet 4.6
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's balanced flagship model, delivering near-Opus performance at a fraction of the cost. It is the most popular Claude model for production applications and coding workflows.
Strengths
- +Excellent coding and analysis
- +Strong cost-to-performance ratio
- +Fast response times
- +Reliable instruction following
Weaknesses
- -Less creative depth than Opus
- -Weaker on extremely complex reasoning
- -No extended thinking by default
Pricing
Per 1M tokens
Input$3.00
Output$15.00
Quick Facts
- Context Window
- 200K
- Parameters
- Undisclosed
- Release Date
- 2026-03-01
- Category
- Frontier
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