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Claude Sonnet 4.6

Current Anthropic default for coding, agents, and high-volume reasoning.

Creator: Anthropic
Lifecycle: Active
Context: 1.0M
Max output: 64.0K
Released: Feb 24, 2026
Status: up

Input: $3.00 / 1M tokens
Output: $15.00 / 1M tokens
Cached read: — / 1M tokens
Cached write: — / 1M tokens
Batch discount: 50%
Source: Claude Sonnet 4.6 pricing
Verified: Apr 2, 2026 (High)

Capabilities

Modalities: textimage→text
Capabilities: reasoningimageInputbatchSupportpromptCachingfunctionCallingstructuredOutputs
Strengths: Balanced frontier model, 1M context beta
Tradeoffs: No first-party search tools

Official Links

Intro

https://www.anthropic.com/claude/sonnet

Docs

https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/models/all-models

Pricing

https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/pricing

Release note

https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/model-deprecations

Benchmark Coverage

Benchmark	Version	Score	Date	Source	Notes

Release History

Release	Alias	Lifecycle	Release Date	Deprecation	Shutdown	Summary
Claude Sonnet 4.6	claude-sonnet-4-6	Active	Feb 24, 2026	—	—	Current published model family snapshot.

Host Coverage

Host	Type	Context	Pricing Note	Differences
Anthropic API	first-party	1.0M	Reference pricing and 1M context beta.	Prompt caching; Extended thinking
AWS Bedrock	cloud	200.0K	Managed Anthropic hosting on AWS.	AWS IAM integration

Migration Guidance

Current recommended Anthropic default unless Opus depth is required.

Replacement models: claude-opus-4-6

Change Events

Date	Type	Title	Description	Source
Feb 24, 2026	family_added	Claude Sonnet 4.6 published	Initial public model family launch.	Claude Sonnet 4.6 release notes

Other models from Anthropic

Claude Haiku 4.5, Claude Opus 4, Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4