Claude Sonnet 4.6
- In Input modalities: TextImage Out Output modalities: Text
- Reasoning· low, medium, high, max
- Reasoning can be off
- Tool use
- Structured output
Prices
9 offerings · prices as listed Claude API (opens in a new tab)
claude-sonnet-4-6| Conditions/ 1M tokens | Input | Cache read | Cache write | Output | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5-minute cache | 1-hour cache | ||||
| Standard | $3.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | $6.00 | $15.00 |
| Batch | $1.50 | — | — | — | $7.50 |
Prices from Claude API pricing (opens in a new tab) (checked Nov 8, 2026)
Standard: the price a request with no conditions pays (the headline price elsewhere on the site).
Details
- Knowledge cutoff
- Aug 2025
- Open weights
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- Family
- claude-sonnet
- Model ID
Not stated on Anthropic’s pages: max thinking budget, aliases.
Cited scores
From third-party leaderboards, not measured by us- Epoch Capabilities Index 152.9
#51 of 118 listed models · CI 151.2–154.7
- LMArena Text 1,472
#32 of 163 listed models · CI 1,469–1,476 · 70,016 votes
- Epoch AI · Chess Puzzles 23%
#54 of 85 listed models · max effort · ±4.23
Also listed: high effort 19% · medium effort 16%
- Epoch AI · GPQA Diamond 87.4%
#59 of 168 listed models · 32K thinking budget · ±2
Also listed: high effort 83.3% · medium effort 83.3% · max effort 78.8%
- Epoch AI, 'Capabilities & benchmarking'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/benchmarks'. Licensed CC BY 4.0. · License · as of Oct 7 – Nov 5, 2026
- LMArena (Arena), leaderboard-dataset on Hugging Face, licensed CC BY 4.0 · License · as of Nov 8, 2026
- EQ-Bench by Samuel J. Paech (eqbench.com; EQ-bench/EQ-bench-site on GitHub), MIT License. · License · as of Oct 24 – 28, 2026
- LiveBench (White et al.), release 2026-06-25, livebench.ai, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. This board, adapted from it, is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. · License · as of Jun 25, 2026
- changes we made
Included in coding plans
- GitHub Copilot Pro $10.00 / month1,500 credits per monthVariable additional usage on top of your base. Flex allotments may change over time.15 USD of usage per month
- GitHub Copilot Pro+ $39.00 / month7,000 credits per monthVariable additional usage on top of your base. Flex allotments may change over time.70 USD of usage per month
- Kiro Pro $20.00 / month1,000 credits per month
- Kiro Pro+ $40.00 / month2,000 credits per month
- Kiro Pro Max $100.00 / month5,000 credits per month
- Kiro Power $200.00 / month10,000 credits per month
Changes
All changes →- 3 new prices on Claude API Cache write (1-hour cache) $6.00 · Input (Batch) $1.50 · Output (Batch) $7.50
Sources
- Claude API pricing (opens in a new tab) platform.claude.com · checked Nov 8, 2026
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 model overview (opens in a new tab) platform.claude.com · checked Nov 8, 2026
- Amazon Bedrock pricing (opens in a new tab) aws.amazon.com · checked Nov 8, 2026
- Vertex AI generative AI pricing (opens in a new tab) cloud.google.com · checked Oct 25, 2026
- Structured outputs (opens in a new tab) platform.claude.com · checked Nov 8, 2026
- Programmatic tool calling (opens in a new tab) platform.claude.com · checked Nov 8, 2026
- Introducing Sonnet 4.6 \ Anthropic (opens in a new tab) anthropic.com · checked Nov 10, 2026
- Effort (opens in a new tab) platform.claude.com · checked Oct 23, 2026
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