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Proprietary release

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Released February 2026

Claude Sonnet 4.6: Release Intelligence, Performance & Price

Name: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Creator: Artificial Analysis
License: https://artificialanalysis.ai/docs/legal/Terms-of-Use.pdf

Available providers

Intelligence

Claude Sonnet 4.6 (max)

Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, high)

Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, low)

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Speed

Claude Sonnet 4.6 (max)

47 t/s

Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, high)

41 t/s

Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, low)

41 t/s

Output speed

Cost

Claude Sonnet 4.6 (max)

$2.49

Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, high)

Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, low)

Per Intelligence Index Task

The Claude Sonnet 4.6 release offers 3 models, each with different intelligence, performance, and pricing characteristics. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across the 3 models.

For intelligence, the top model of Claude Sonnet 4.6 is Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) at 30.
For output speed, the fastest model is Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) at 47 t/s.
For latency, Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, Low Effort) at 1.41s offers the lowest time to first answer token.
For pricing, Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) at $2.49 offers the lowest cost per task.

Input modality	Supports: text and image
Output modality	Supports: text
Context window	1M ~1500 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font

Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 incorporates 10 evaluations: AA-Briefcase, GDPval-AA v2, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench v4.0, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GDP.pdf, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR v1.1

Estimate (independent evaluation forthcoming)

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 includes: AA-Briefcase, GDPval-AA v2, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench v4.0, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GDP.pdf, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR v1.1. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task

Most attractive quadrant

Pareto line

Weighted average cost per Intelligence Index task. Each evaluation’s cost is calculated from input, cache hit, cache write, reasoning, and answer token prices, divided by task count, and weighted by its Intelligence Index weight.

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task, segmented by token type. Lower is better

Speed & Latency

Output Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better

Tokens per second received while the model is generating tokens (ie. after first chunk has been received from the API for models which support streaming).

Figures represent performance of the model's first-party API (e.g. OpenAI for o1) or the median across providers where a first-party API is not available (e.g. Meta's Llama models).

Capability Scores

Capability Indices

Measures the performance of models on specific capabilities and industries

Finance & Accounting Index

Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2, AA-Briefcase, Humanity's Last Exam, AutomationBench-AA, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Strategy & Ops Index

Incorporates 6 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2, AA-Briefcase, AutomationBench-AA, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Legal Index

Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2, AA-Briefcase, Humanity's Last Exam, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better

Healthcare & Medical Index

Incorporates 6 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2, AA-Briefcase, MLCR-AA, Humanity's Last Exam, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better

Engineering Index

Incorporates 6 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, Humanity's Last Exam, CritPt, GDPval-AA v2, AA-Briefcase, Terminal-Bench v4.0 · Higher is better

Economics Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, Humanity's Last Exam, GDPval-AA v2, AA-Briefcase, AA-LCR v1.1 · Higher is better

Further details

							Weights	Provider Benchmarks
Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)	Anthropic	30	-	1M	$2.3	47	Not available	View
Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)	Anthropic	25	-	1M	$2.3	41	Not available	View
Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, Low Effort)	Anthropic	23	-	1M	$2.3	41	Not available	View

Claude Sonnet 4.6: Release Intelligence, Performance & Price

Intelligence

Speed

Cost

Technical specifications

Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Speed & Latency

Output Speed

Output Speed

Model Performance Representation

Capability Scores

Capability Indices

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