Claude Sonnet 4.6

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 memory, polished document creation, and confident computer use for web QA and workflow automation.

anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
Organization
Anthropic
Providers
51
Context
1,000,000
Output limit
64,000
Knowledge
2025-08-31
Release
2026-02-17
Updated
2026-03-13
Weights
Closed
Input
text, image/jpeg, image/png, image/gif, image/webp, application/pdf
Output
text
Capabilities
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Providers

Compare every cataloged offer for this model, including its provider, route, token limits, price, and capabilities.

70 offers · USD per million tokens
ProviderModel IDContextOutputInput / output · 1MReasoningToolsStructuredDetails
302.AI
claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
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302.AI
claude-sonnet-4-6-thinking
1,000,00064,000— / ————
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Abacus
claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
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AIHubMix
claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
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AIHubMix
claude-sonnet-4-6-think
1,000,00064,000— / ————
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AI/ML API
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
200,00064,000— / ————
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Amazon Bedrock
global.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,000128,000— / ————
View
Amazon Bedrock
jp.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,000128,000— / ————
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Amazon Bedrock
anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,000128,000— / ————
View
Amazon Bedrock
us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,000128,000— / ————
View
Amazon Bedrock
eu.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,000128,000— / ————
View
Amazon Bedrock
au.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,000128,000— / ————
View
AnyAPI
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
View
Auriko
claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
View
Azure
claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
View
Cloudflare AI Gateway
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
1,000,000128,000— / ————
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CommandCode
claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
View
Cortecs
claude-4-6-sonnet
1,000,000128,000— / ————
View
CrossModel
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,000128,000— / ————
View
DaoXE
claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
View
Databricks
databricks-claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
View
DevPass (LLM Gateway)
claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
View
DigitalOcean
anthropic-claude-4.6-sonnet
200,0008,192— / ————
View
Eden AI
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
View
FastRouter
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
View
FreeModel
claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
View
FrogBot
claude-sonnet-4-6
200,00064,000— / ————
View
GitHub Copilot
claude-sonnet-4.6
200,00032,000— / ————
View
GitLab Duo
duo-chat-sonnet-4-6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
View
GMI Cloud
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
409,60064,000— / ————
View
Impossibl
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
View
Kenari
claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
View
Kilo Gateway
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
1,000,000128,000— / ————
View
LLM Gateway
aws-bedrock/claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
View
LLM Gateway
vertex-anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
View
LLM Gateway
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
View
Merge Gateway
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,000128,000— / ————
View
Modelis
claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
View
NanoGPT
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
1,000,000128,000— / ————
View
NanoGPT
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6:thinking
1,000,000128,000— / ————
View
NEAR AI Cloud
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
View
Neon
claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
View
Ofox
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
1,000,000128,000— / ————
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OpenCode
claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
View
Amazon Bedrockvia OpenRouter
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
unknown
1,000,000128,000$3.00 / $15.00YesYesYes
View
Amazon Bedrockvia OpenRouter
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
unknown
1,000,000128,000$3.30 / $16.50YesYesYes
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Amazon Bedrockvia OpenRouter
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
unknown
1,000,000128,000$3.30 / $16.50YesYesYes
View
Anthropicvia OpenRouter
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
unknown
1,000,000128,000$3.00 / $15.00YesYesYes
View
Azurevia OpenRouter
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
unknown
1,000,000128,000$3.00 / $15.00YesYesYes
View
Claude Platform on AWSvia OpenRouter
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
unknown
1,000,000128,000$3.00 / $15.00YesYesYes
View
Googlevia OpenRouter
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
unknown
1,000,000128,000$3.30 / $16.50YesYesYes
View
Googlevia OpenRouter
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
unknown
1,000,000128,000$3.00 / $15.00YesYesYes
View
Googlevia OpenRouter
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
unknown
1,000,000128,000$3.30 / $16.50YesYesYes
View
Opper
claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
View
OrcaRouter
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
View
Perplexity Agent
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
200,00064,000— / ————
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Poe
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
983,040128,000— / ————
View
Prime Inference
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
1,000,000128,000— / ————
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Requesty
claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
View
Requesty
claude-sonnet-4-6@eu
1,000,00064,000— / ————
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routing.run
claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
View
SAP AI Core
anthropic--claude-4.6-sonnet
1,000,00064,000— / ————
View
Snowflake Cortex
claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
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Tempr Gateway
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
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Venice AI
claude-sonnet-4-6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
View
Vercel AI Gateway
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
1,000,000128,000— / ————
View
Vertex
claude-sonnet-4-6@default
1,000,000128,000— / ————
View
Vertex (Anthropic)
claude-sonnet-4-6@default
1,000,000128,000— / ————
View
Xpersona
claude-sonnet-4-6
200,000128,000— / ————
View
ZenMux
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
1,000,00064,000— / ————
View

Prices and limits apply to each offer. A dash means the value is not provided. OpenRouter offers show the hosting provider and routing channel separately.

Pricing

Compare token rates and cache charges across available routes and hosting configurations.

USD per million tokens
Input from$3.00Per 1M input tokens
Output from$15.00Per 1M output tokens
Available offers70Across 51 providers

Lowest listed input and output prices across the offers above; they may belong to different providers. These are base rates, before conditional pricing, discounts or additional fees.

Endpoint price comparisonLatest observed snapshot · 9 lowest-priced configurations
InputOutput
Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock/global
$3.00$15.00
Anthropicanthropic
$3.00$15.00
Azureazure/global
$3.00$15.00
Claude Platform on AWSclaude-on-aws
$3.00$15.00
Googlegoogle-vertex/global
$3.00$15.00
Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock/eu-west-1
$3.30$16.50
Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock/us
$3.30$16.50
Googlegoogle-vertex/europe
$3.30$16.50
Googlegoogle-vertex/us-east5
$3.30$16.50
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6Observed
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
Cache read
$0.30
Cache write
$3.75
Cache write · 1 hour
$6.00
Additional fees and pricing conditions
web search
$0.01 / search
Hosting prices through OpenRouter All endpoints and cache rates
EndpointInput / 1MOutput / 1MCache read / 1MCache write / 1M
Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock/global$3.00$15.00$0.30$3.75
Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock/eu-west-1$3.30$16.50$0.33$4.125
Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock/us$3.30$16.50$0.33$4.125
Anthropicanthropic$3.00$15.00$0.30$3.75
Azureazure/global$3.00$15.00$0.30$3.75
Claude Platform on AWSclaude-on-aws$3.00$15.00$0.30$3.75
Googlegoogle-vertex/europe$3.30$16.50$0.33$4.125
Googlegoogle-vertex/global$3.00$15.00$0.30$3.75
Googlegoogle-vertex/us-east5$3.30$16.50$0.33$4.125

Each row is a hosting configuration. Open an offer in Providers for its full pricing conditions and additional fees. Endpoint observations may differ from the routing catalog's base price.

Performance

Review reported latency and output-throughput percentiles from the latest observed rolling window.

Latest 30-minute observation

Time to first token · milliseconds

Latency distributionRolling 30-minute snapshot · 6 endpoints
P50P75P90P99
Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock/global
872.5–6,479.03 ms
Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock/eu-west-1
909–3,042.54 ms
Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock/us
758–906.64 ms
Anthropicanthropic
996–3,509.08 ms
Azureazure/global
1,386–1,603.64 ms
Claude Platform on AWSclaude-on-aws
944–37,633.1 ms
All latency percentiles 9 endpoints
EndpointP50P75P90P99
Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock/global872.5 ms1,220 ms2,057.3 ms6,479.03 ms
Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock/eu-west-1909 ms993.25 ms1,137.2 ms3,042.54 ms
Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock/us758 ms791.25 ms814.2 ms906.64 ms
Anthropicanthropic996 ms1,114 ms1,422 ms3,509.08 ms
Azureazure/global1,386 ms1,480 ms1,555.8 ms1,603.64 ms
Claude Platform on AWSclaude-on-aws944 ms1,313.25 ms4,283.5 ms37,633.1 ms
Googlegoogle-vertex/europe659.5 ms819 ms914.5 ms1,106.45 ms
Googlegoogle-vertex/global1,237 ms1,581 ms2,317.6 ms5,184.88 ms
Googlegoogle-vertex/us-east5679 ms824.25 ms947.7 ms1,618.36 ms

Output throughput · tokens per second

Throughput distributionRolling 30-minute snapshot · 6 endpoints
P50P75P90P99
Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock/global
77–169.96 t/s
Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock/eu-west-1
93–173 t/s
Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock/us
153.5–187.32 t/s
Anthropicanthropic
38–83 t/s
Azureazure/global
68–86.52 t/s
Claude Platform on AWSclaude-on-aws
40–96 t/s
All throughput percentiles 9 endpoints
EndpointP50P75P90P99
Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock/global77 t/s94 t/s113.6 t/s169.96 t/s
Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock/eu-west-193 t/s112 t/s134 t/s173 t/s
Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock/us153.5 t/s166.75 t/s181.9 t/s187.32 t/s
Anthropicanthropic38 t/s46 t/s56 t/s83 t/s
Azureazure/global68 t/s74 t/s82.4 t/s86.52 t/s
Claude Platform on AWSclaude-on-aws40 t/s48 t/s60 t/s96 t/s
Googlegoogle-vertex/europe76 t/s87 t/s95 t/s109.42 t/s
Googlegoogle-vertex/global31 t/s46.5 t/s68 t/s88.06 t/s
Googlegoogle-vertex/us-east576 t/s84 t/s92 t/s102.2 t/s

Percentiles describe the observed request distribution. These are snapshots of a rolling window, not a historical time series.

Uptime

Compare successful request rates across the latest 5-minute, 30-minute, and 24-hour observations.

Successful requests by window
Availability by endpointCurrent overlapping windows · 9 endpoints
Endpoint5 minutes30 minutes24 hours
Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock/global
Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock/eu-west-1
Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock/us
Anthropicanthropic
Azureazure/global
Claude Platform on AWSclaude-on-aws
Googlegoogle-vertex/europe
Googlegoogle-vertex/global
Googlegoogle-vertex/us-east5

Reported by OpenRouter at the time of collection; rate-limited requests are excluded. A dash means no measurement was reported. This is not a live availability check.

Benchmarks

Review attributed evaluation results on each source's original scale.

External evaluations
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6Observed
Benchmark profileArtificial Analysis · shared source scale from 0 to 70
Coding63
Agentic31.8
Intelligence30.1
Design ArenaCategoryEloWin rateRank
agentsagenticgamedev1,17752.2%16
agentsandroidnative1,21162%13
agentsfullstack1,21364.3%14
agentsgodotgamedev1,22660.6%12
agentsmobileapps1,20963.6%14
agentswebapps1,18357%24
models3d1,24057.6%33
modelsasciiart1,24260.1%18
modelscodecategories1,28059.4%18
modelsdataviz1,28158.2%18
modelsgamedev1,26658.8%30
modelssvg1,19658.7%24
modelsuicomponent1,27558.3%27
modelswebsite1,28960%19

Sources: Artificial Analysis and Design Arena, via OpenRouter. Scores retain their original scales and are not OpenAI Suite ratings.

Detailed evaluations

Evaluation scoresAccuracy or item F1 · higher is better
gpqa diamondAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
66.988%
tau bench verified airlineAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
75.091%
EvaluationConfigurationSourceResultsDetails
models · gamedevClaude Sonnet 4.6anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217Design Arena1,259 Elo
Details
models · asciiartClaude Sonnet 4.6anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217Design Arena1,235 Elo
Details
models · 3dClaude Sonnet 4.6anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217Design Arena1,235 Elo
Details
models · datavizClaude Sonnet 4.6anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217Design Arena1,278 Elo
Details
gpqa diamondAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217OpenRouter66.988%
Details
models · svgClaude Sonnet 4.6anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217Design Arena1,197 Elo
Details
Composite indicesClaude Sonnet 4.6 (Max)anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217Artificial AnalysisIntelligence 30.1 · Coding 63 · Agentic 31.8
Details
tau bench verified airlineAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217OpenRouter75.091%
Details
models · codecategoriesClaude Sonnet 4.6anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217Design Arena1,275 Elo
Details
models · websiteClaude Sonnet 4.6anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217Design Arena1,285 Elo
Details
models · uicomponentClaude Sonnet 4.6anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217Design Arena1,269 Elo
Details

Sources: Artificial Analysis, Design Arena and OpenRouter. Evaluation configurations and scales differ; results are not interchangeable. Updated Oct 24, 2026.

Apps & session costs

Compare observed median session costs for applications using this model, grouped by conversation length.

30-day sample · through Oct 18, 2026
ApplicationModel routeTurnsMedian cost / sessionDetails
Hermes Agentanthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-202602171 turn
$0.041886
Details
Claude Codeanthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-2026021710–49 turns
$0.804337
Details
Claude Codeanthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-2026021750+ turns
$4.722481
Details
Hermes Agentanthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-202602172–9 turns
$0.107838
Details
Hermes Agentanthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-2026021710–49 turns
$0.717024
Details
Claude Codeanthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-202602172–9 turns
$0.187538
Details
Hermes Agentanthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-2026021750+ turns
$3.725351
Details
Claude Codeanthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-202602171 turn
$0.09566
Details

Source: OpenRouter, as of Oct 20, 2026. Published under CC BY 4.0. These are observed costs per session, not token prices or a forecast for your workload. Apps are compared separately.

Activity

Daily prompt and completion tokens reported for this model's routes in OpenRouter's top 50. Missing days have no published value.

Last 90 complete UTC days
Daily token usage6,688,147,815,999 reported tokens · 63 days with observations
Jul 26, 2026Oct 23, 2026
Daily observations · 63 days
Date (UTC)Reported tokensReported routes
Oct 9, 202657,182,711,8581
Oct 1, 202651,098,130,6341
Sep 30, 202649,832,537,5371
Sep 29, 202656,339,337,4921
Sep 28, 202655,331,159,2211
Sep 25, 202650,491,203,6021
Sep 24, 202654,487,737,4431
Sep 22, 202658,526,406,0591
Sep 21, 202658,358,422,2741
Sep 18, 202654,169,117,7661
Sep 17, 202658,292,281,3131
Sep 16, 202662,056,163,3351
Sep 15, 202668,306,285,5671
Sep 14, 202671,607,400,9071
Sep 13, 202635,165,536,4191
Sep 12, 202635,283,589,5721
Sep 11, 202668,202,107,5501
Sep 10, 202664,383,339,1101
Sep 9, 202685,990,905,4941
Sep 8, 2026174,958,593,0281
Sep 7, 2026235,367,353,7211
Sep 6, 2026186,220,705,6711
Sep 5, 2026195,593,233,7551
Sep 4, 2026214,093,190,3091
Sep 3, 2026200,608,105,0511
Sep 2, 2026127,189,017,6501
Sep 1, 2026112,633,064,7821
Aug 31, 2026117,662,539,6161
Aug 30, 202690,945,709,6671
Aug 29, 202692,536,008,5631
Aug 28, 2026111,560,060,8611
Aug 27, 2026126,483,932,1281
Aug 26, 2026122,980,401,6481
Aug 25, 2026121,488,606,6201
Aug 24, 2026106,675,667,9591
Aug 23, 202671,447,256,1391
Aug 22, 202669,811,811,1581
Aug 21, 202689,626,229,0831
Aug 20, 2026121,135,571,7611
Aug 19, 2026123,777,847,9261
Aug 18, 202699,912,165,4711
Aug 17, 2026105,710,246,2601
Aug 16, 202682,426,741,2551
Aug 15, 202673,457,281,6461
Aug 14, 2026104,982,398,0091
Aug 13, 2026110,210,782,8211
Aug 12, 2026104,609,304,8091
Aug 11, 2026124,815,759,3781
Aug 10, 2026135,092,536,1151
Aug 9, 202689,097,153,6881
Aug 8, 202689,926,604,6861
Aug 7, 2026122,550,160,9611
Aug 6, 2026115,930,349,5861
Aug 5, 2026145,641,381,6951
Aug 4, 2026141,860,810,3161
Aug 3, 2026136,439,520,3881
Aug 2, 202683,910,678,2871
Aug 1, 202680,448,203,4581
Jul 31, 2026161,621,139,9291
Jul 30, 2026187,948,325,4851
Jul 29, 2026174,213,424,2131
Jul 28, 2026177,127,946,4121
Jul 27, 2026132,315,620,8821

Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), as of Oct 24, 2026. CC BY 4.0. Totals include only individually published routes. Tokenizers differ by provider; the aggregated “other” category is never assigned to a model.

Technical details & API

Explore specifications, supported parameters, reasoning controls, and API identifiers for each OpenRouter route.

Current route specifications
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6Observed
Context
1,000,000
Maximum output
128,000
Tokenizer
Claude
Input
text, image, file
Output
text
Moderation
Yes
Added to OpenRouter
2026-02-17
Base URLhttps://openrouter.ai/api/v1
Model IDanthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
Version IDanthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217

Reasoning

Required
No
Enabled by default
Not reported
Default effort
medium
Supported efforts
max, high, medium, low

Supported parameters

  • include_reasoning
  • max_completion_tokens
  • max_tokens
  • reasoning
  • reasoning_effort
  • response_format
  • stop
  • structured_outputs
  • temperature
  • tool_choice
  • tools
  • top_k
  • top_p
  • verbosity

Frequently asked questions

Answers based on the model metadata and serving offers currently in the catalog.

How much does Claude Sonnet 4.6 cost?

Listed rates start at $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens. Prices vary by provider and configuration; see Pricing for details.

Which providers offer Claude Sonnet 4.6?

There are 70 cataloged offers across 51 providers. Compare model IDs, prices and limits in Providers.

What is the context window?

The cataloged model context is 1,000,000 tokens. Each serving endpoint may apply a different limit.

Does it support tools and structured output?

Tool calling: Not reported. Structured output: Not reported. Support can vary by endpoint.

Catalog history · 3 recorded revisions

Metadata observations since this model was first cataloged. These are not model release versions.

  • · 590a1c8d838e
  • · d1fc0df17ca2
  • · eeb0f63cc414