Anthropic model product
Claude Sonnet 4.6
6 is an Anthropic llm with updates across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design.
Updated Sep 8, 2026. Default version: Claude Sonnet 4.6
LLMBoard Score71.4Claude Sonnet 4.6
Coverage60%17 benchmark families
Context window200KTokens
Official input price$3Anthropic API
Claude Sonnet 4.6 Capability Profile
This profile uses the model's current scored version. Arena ratings and prices are shown separately.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 Benchmark Results
Benchmark scores for Claude Sonnet 4.6.
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Benchmark | Score | Rank | Participants | Percentile | Evidence | Evaluated |
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| BenchmarkFinance Agent | Score63.30% | Rank02 | Participants8 | Percentile85.71% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkTau2 Retail | Score91.70% | Rank02 | Participants27 | Percentile96.15% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkOSWorld | Score72.50% | Rank04 | Participants20 | Percentile84.21% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkLegal Agent Benchmark | Score5.40% | Rank05 | Participants13 | Percentile66.67% | EvidenceB | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkLM Arena Document | Score1,482.80 rating | Rank06 | Participants33 | Percentile84.38% | EvidenceA | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkLM Arena Search | Score1,221.23 rating | Rank06 | Participants28 | Percentile81.48% | EvidenceA | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkARC-AGI v2 | Score58.30% | Rank07 | Participants18 | Percentile64.71% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkFinance Agent v2 | Score51.03% | Rank07 | Participants26 | Percentile76.00% | EvidenceB | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkTau2 Telecom | Score97.90% | Rank07 | Participants36 | Percentile82.86% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkLM Arena Search Factuality | Score1,202.07 rating | Rank10 | Participants28 | Percentile66.67% | EvidenceA | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkLM Arena Search Style Control | Score1,201.03 rating | Rank10 | Participants28 | Percentile66.67% | EvidenceA | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkLM Arena Agent Bash Recovery Steps | Score9.16% | Rank11 | Participants49 | Percentile79.17% | EvidenceA | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkLM Arena Document Style Control | Score1,477.53 rating | Rank11 | Participants33 | Percentile68.75% | EvidenceA | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkMMMLU | Score89.30% | Rank12 | Participants49 | Percentile77.08% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkLiveBench | Score75.47% | Rank13 | Participants38 | Percentile67.57% | EvidenceB | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkSWE-Bench Verified | Score79.60% | Rank16 | Participants113 | Percentile86.61% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkLM Arena Vision | Score1,282.25 rating | Rank19 | Participants107 | Percentile83.02% | EvidenceA | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkLM Arena Vision Style Control | Score1,275.34 rating | Rank20 | Participants107 | Percentile82.08% | EvidenceA | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkTerminal-Bench 2.0 | Score59.10% | Rank23 | Participants51 | Percentile56.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkLM Arena Agent Tool Hallucination | Score0.71% | Rank24 | Participants49 | Percentile52.08% | EvidenceA | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkHumanity's Last Exam | Score49.00% | Rank25 | Participants103 | Percentile76.47% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkLM Arena Agent Leaderboard | Score0.50% | Rank27 | Participants49 | Percentile45.83% | EvidenceA | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkLM Arena Text | Score1,458.01 rating | Rank27 | Participants210 | Percentile87.56% | EvidenceA | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkLM Arena Agent Steerability | Score-0.99% | Rank28 | Participants49 | Percentile43.75% | EvidenceA | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkLM Arena Text Style Control | Score1,472.39 rating | Rank28 | Participants210 | Percentile87.08% | EvidenceA | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkLM Arena Webdev | Score1,521.49 rating | Rank28 | Participants97 | Percentile71.88% | EvidenceA | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkBrowseComp | Score74.70% | Rank29 | Participants63 | Percentile54.84% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkGPQA | Score89.90% | Rank29 | Participants247 | Percentile88.62% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkMCP Atlas | Score61.30% | Rank29 | Participants34 | Percentile15.15% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkLM Arena Agent Praise Complaint | Score-0.50% | Rank29 | Participants49 | Percentile41.67% | EvidenceA | Evaluated |
Claude Sonnet 4.6 Arena Results
Preference and agent-evaluation results for the default version.
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Arena | Category | Rank | Rating / score | Votes | Observations | Result date |
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| Arenadocument | Categoryoverall | Rank06 | Rating / score1,482.80 | Votes54,427 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenasearch | Categoryoverall | Rank06 | Rating / score1,221.23 | Votes134,905 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext factuality | Categoryjapanese | Rank08 | Rating / score1,452.46 | Votes512 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenavision style control | Categoryenglish | Rank09 | Rating / score1,282.02 | Votes10,889 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenasearch factuality | Categoryoverall | Rank10 | Rating / score1,202.07 | Votes134,853 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenasearch style control | Categoryoverall | Rank10 | Rating / score1,201.03 | Votes134,905 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext | Categorycoding | Rank10 | Rating / score1,503.85 | Votes18,359 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenavision | Categoryenglish | Rank10 | Rating / score1,296.74 | Votes10,889 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenaagent bash recovery steps | Categoryoverall | Rank11 | Rating / score0.09 | VotesN/A | Observations29.2K | Result date |
| Arenadocument style control | Categoryoverall | Rank11 | Rating / score1,477.53 | Votes54,427 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext | Categoryhard prompts english | Rank11 | Rating / score1,493.64 | Votes20,032 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext factuality | Categorycoding | Rank13 | Rating / score1,528.48 | Votes16,828 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext factuality | Categoryexpert | Rank13 | Rating / score1,510.03 | Votes5,415 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext style control | Categorycoding | Rank13 | Rating / score1,528.35 | Votes18,359 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext style control | Categoryhard prompts english | Rank13 | Rating / score1,506.94 | Votes20,032 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext style control | Categoryindustry software and it services | Rank14 | Rating / score1,514.89 | Votes25,902 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext | Categoryinstruction following | Rank15 | Rating / score1,477.02 | Votes22,033 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext factuality | Categoryhard prompts english | Rank15 | Rating / score1,506.80 | Votes18,628 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext factuality | Categoryinstruction following | Rank15 | Rating / score1,476.96 | Votes20,587 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext style control | Categoryindustry life and physical and social science | Rank15 | Rating / score1,500.66 | Votes10,801 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext style control | Categorylonger query | Rank15 | Rating / score1,493.38 | Votes28,409 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenawebdev | Categoryimage to webdev | Rank15 | Rating / score1,529.17 | Votes7,334 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext | Categoryexpert | Rank16 | Rating / score1,502.01 | Votes6,696 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext | Categoryindustry business and management and financial operations | Rank16 | Rating / score1,465.47 | Votes13,223 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext factuality | Categoryspanish | Rank16 | Rating / score1,458.60 | Votes1,652 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext style control | Categoryhard prompts | Rank16 | Rating / score1,503.78 | Votes43,063 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext style control | Categoryindustry business and management and financial operations | Rank16 | Rating / score1,483.54 | Votes13,223 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext style control | Categoryexpert | Rank17 | Rating / score1,508.15 | Votes6,696 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenatext style control | Categoryinstruction following | Rank17 | Rating / score1,476.13 | Votes22,033 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
| Arenavision | Categorydiagram | Rank17 | Rating / score1,304.90 | Votes7,042 | ObservationsN/A | Result date |
Claude Sonnet 4.6 Pricing
Official vendor API pricing appears first, followed by individual provider offers.
- Official API
- $3 input, $15 output per 1M
- Official provider
- Anthropic
- Lowest third-party
- From $0.90 input, $5.55 output per 1M via Xpersona
- Tracked offerings
- 47
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Provider | Provider model ID | Region | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Updated |
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| ProviderKenari | Provider model IDclaude-sonnet-4-6 | Regionglobal | Input / 1MN/A | Output / 1MN/A | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderXpersona | Provider model IDclaude-sonnet-4-6 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$0.90 | Output / 1M$5.55 | Context200K | Updated |
| ProviderPoe | Provider model IDanthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$2.6 | Output / 1M$13 | Context983K | Updated |
| ProviderOrcaRouter | Provider model IDanthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$3 | Output / 1M$15 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderNanoGPT | Provider model IDanthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$3 | Output / 1M$15 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderVertex | Provider model IDclaude-sonnet-4-6@default | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$3 | Output / 1M$15 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderImpossibl | Provider model IDanthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$3 | Output / 1M$15 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderOpenRouter | Provider model IDanthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$3 | Output / 1M$15 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderVertex (Anthropic) | Provider model IDclaude-sonnet-4-6@default | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$3 | Output / 1M$15 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderAuriko | Provider model IDclaude-sonnet-4-6 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$3 | Output / 1M$15 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderDaoXE | Provider model IDclaude-sonnet-4-6 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$3 | Output / 1M$15 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderCrossModel | Provider model IDanthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$3 | Output / 1M$15 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderAnthropic | Provider model IDclaude-sonnet-4-6 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$3 | Output / 1M$15 | Context1M | Updated |
| Providerrouting.run | Provider model IDclaude-sonnet-4-6 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$3 | Output / 1M$15 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderDatabricks | Provider model IDdatabricks-claude-sonnet-4-6 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$3 | Output / 1M$15 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderAmazon Bedrock | Provider model IDanthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$3 | Output / 1M$15 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderOpper | Provider model IDanthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$3 | Output / 1M$15 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderLLM Gateway | Provider model IDanthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$3 | Output / 1M$15 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderNEAR AI Cloud | Provider model IDanthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$3 | Output / 1M$15 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderMerge Gateway | Provider model IDanthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$3 | Output / 1M$15 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderCloudflare AI Gateway | Provider model IDanthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$3 | Output / 1M$15 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderFastRouter | Provider model IDanthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$3 | Output / 1M$15 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderZenMux | Provider model IDanthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$3 | Output / 1M$15 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderPerplexity Agent | Provider model IDanthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$3 | Output / 1M$15 | Context200K | Updated |
| ProviderGMI Cloud | Provider model IDanthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$3 | Output / 1M$15 | Context409.6K | Updated |
| ProviderFreeModel | Provider model IDclaude-sonnet-4-6 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$3 | Output / 1M$15 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderOfox | Provider model IDanthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$3 | Output / 1M$15 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderNeon | Provider model IDclaude-sonnet-4-6 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$3 | Output / 1M$15 | Context1M | Updated |
| ProviderAzure Cognitive Services | Provider model IDclaude-sonnet-4-6 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$3 | Output / 1M$15 | Context1M | Updated |
| Provider302.AI | Provider model IDclaude-sonnet-4-6 | Regionglobal | Input / 1M$3 | Output / 1M$15 | Context1M | Updated |
Claude Sonnet 4.6 Runtime Performance
Provider-specific output speed and catalog latency for Claude Sonnet 4.6. Runtime does not affect the capability score.
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Provider | Output Speed | Catalog Latency | Max Input | Max Output | Updated |
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| ProviderAnthropic | Output Speed7.67 tok/s | Catalog Latency3.70 s | Max Input200K | Max Output64K | Updated |
Output Speed is generated output tokens received per second. Catalog latency is reported separately from observed provider TTFT.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 Specifications
Technical details for the model's default version.
- Version
- Claude Sonnet 4.6
- Released
- Feb 17, 2026
- Knowledge cutoff
- Unknown
- Parameters
- N/A
- Context window
- 200K
- Max output
- 64K
- Inputs
- audio, image, text, video
- Outputs
- text
- Open weights
- No
- License
- Proprietary
Claude Sonnet 4.6 Versions
Available versions of this model. The score column identifies the version used in the overall ranking.
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Version | Released | LLMBoard | Parameters | Context | Max output | Open weights | License |
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| VersionClaude Sonnet 4.6 | Released | LLMBoard71.37 | ParametersN/A | Context200K | Max output64K | Open weightsNo | LicenseProprietary |
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What is Claude Sonnet 4.6?
Key information about Claude Sonnet 4.6 and its available data.
6 is an Anthropic llm with a 1M token context window in beta, context compaction, and improved computer use skills compared with prior Sonnet models. It is available as the default model on Free and Pro plans and is priced at $3/$15 per million tokens for input/output.
Data as of 2026-09-08.
FAQ
Common questions about Claude Sonnet 4.6.
When was Claude Sonnet 4.6 released?
Claude Sonnet 4.6's default version was released on Feb 17, 2026.
How much does Claude Sonnet 4.6 cost?
Claude Sonnet 4.6's official API price is $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens via Anthropic. The lowest tracked third-party offer starts at $0.90 input and $5.55 output via Xpersona.
Who created Claude Sonnet 4.6?
Claude Sonnet 4.6 was created by Anthropic.
What is the context window for Claude Sonnet 4.6?
The default version has a 200K token context window.
Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 open weight?
No. The default version is not marked as having publicly available weights.