Claude Sonnet 4.6

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

Pricing

Model Overview

Tracked token-pricing fields for this model family. Empty pricing fields stay hidden until the source publishes them.

Surface

Input and output modalities, enabled feature flags, strengths, and tradeoffs.

Model capabilities
Attribute	Values
Modalities	textimage to text
Capabilities	reasoningimageInputbatchSupportpromptCachingfunctionCallingstructuredOutputs
Strengths	Balanced frontier model, 1M context beta
Tradeoffs	No first-party search tools

References

Canonical launch, documentation, pricing, and release-note URLs.

Official model links
Reference	URL
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

Coverage

Reported benchmark families, versions, scores, sources, and notes.

Benchmark coverage
Benchmark	Version	Score	Date	Source	Notes

Lifecycle

Lifecycle transitions and release timeline for this model family.

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.

Surfaces

Provider-specific hosting, context, pricing notes, feature differences, and provider-status context.

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

Documented migration summary, successor families, and known breaking changes.

Migration guidance
Topic	Details
Summary	Current Anthropic Sonnet tier unless Opus depth is required.
Replacement models	claude-opus-4-6

Timeline

Cataloged model-family updates and source references.

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

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