Models / Anthropic / Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic · claude-sonnet
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Claude workhorse for coding agents, careful analysis, and production cost control
$3.00 in · $15.00 out
per 1M tokens · first-party price. Reference price from Anthropic, the lab's own listing.
Provider input prices run from $0.90 to $4.13 per 1M tokens. Output prices run from $5.55 to $20.63.
- Context
- 1,000,000
- Max output
- 64,000
- Cache read
- $0.30
- Cache write
- $3.75
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Tool calls
- Yes
- Structured output
- Unknown
- Vision
- Yes
- Open weights
- No
- License
- —
- Released
- Feb 17, 2026
- Updated in source
- Mar 13, 2026
- Knowledge
- 2025-08-31
- Providers
- 44
Providers
| Provider | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xpersona | $0.90 | $5.55 | $0.09 | — | — |
| Abacus | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | — | — |
| Anthropicreference | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | — |
| Auriko | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | — |
| Azure | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | — |
| Azure Cognitive Services | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | — |
| Cloudflare AI Gateway | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | — |
| CrossModel | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | — |
| DaoXE | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | — |
| Databricks | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | — |
| DevPass | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | — |
| Eden AI | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | — |
| FastRouter | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | — | — |
| FreeModel | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | — |
| GitHub Copilot | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | — |
| GMI Cloud | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | — | — |
| Impossibl | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | — |
| Kilo Gateway | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | — |
| LLM Gateway | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | — |
| Merge Gateway | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | — |
| Modelis | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | — | — |
| NanoGPT | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | — | — |
| NEAR AI Cloud | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | — |
| Neon | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | — |
| Ofox | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | — |
| OpenRouter | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | — |
| OrcaRouter | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | — |
| Pioneer | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | — |
| Prime Inference | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | — | — |
| Requesty | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | — |
| routing.run | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | — | — |
| SAP AI Core | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | — |
| Tempr Gateway | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | — |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | — |
| Vertex | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | — |
| Vertex | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | — |
| Cortecs | $3.20 | $15.94 | $0.32 | $4.00 | — |
| Amazon Bedrock | $3.30 | $16.50 | $0.33 | $4.13 | — |
| Opper | $3.30 | $16.50 | $0.33 | $4.13 | — |
| Venice AI | $3.60 | $18.00 | $0.36 | $4.50 | — |
| AI/ML API | $4.13 | $20.63 | $0.41 | — | — |
| AnyAPI | — | — | — | — | — |
| Kenari | $0 | $0 | — | — | — |
| Snowflake Cortex | — | — | — | — | — |
Jobs this model qualifies for
- Coding agents — clears the bar
- Long-document Q&A — clears the bar
- Cheapest summarization — clears the bar
Comparisons
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