Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic · Released 17 Feb 2026 · claude-sonnet-4-6
$3.00
Input price / 1M tokens
#47 of 61, cheapest first
$15.00
Output price / 1M tokens
#46 of 61, cheapest first
1M
Context window
#29 of 71
44
Output tokens / second
#56 of 61
Summary
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a proprietary model from Anthropic, released on 17 Feb 2026.
At $3.00 input and $15.00 output per million tokens, it is #47 of 61 on input price, cheapest first.
Its 1M-token context window ranks #29 of 71.
Measured output speed is 44 tokens per second, #56 of 61.
Legacy Sonnet model; at launch Anthropic called it a full upgrade across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning and knowledge work.
Benchmarks · 0 reported
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Sources
- price, cache prices, batch, tokenizer: platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing, checked 2 Oct 2026
- context, max output, release, api id, knowledge cutoff, modalities, legacy status: platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/sonnet-4-6/overview, checked 2 Oct 2026
- status, retirement commitment (not sooner than 2027-02-17): platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/model-deprecations, checked 2 Oct 2026
- minimum cacheable prompt length: platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-caching, checked 2 Oct 2026
- positioning: anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6, checked 2 Oct 2026
- output speed: artificialanalysis.ai/models/claude-sonnet-4-6, checked 2 Oct 2026
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