Claude Sonnet 4.6: Release Intelligence, Performance & Price
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Model summary
Verbosity
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 (Max) at 30.
- For output speed, the fastest model is Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Max) at 56 t/s.
- For latency, Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, Low) at 0.98s offers the lowest time to first answer token.
- For pricing, Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Max) 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 |
Metrics are compared against models of the same class:
- Non-reasoning models → compared only with other non-reasoning models
- Reasoning models → compared across both reasoning and non-reasoning
- Open weights models → compared only with other open weights models of the same size class:
- Tiny: ≤4B parameters
- Small: 4B–40B parameters
- Medium: 40B–150B parameters
- Large: >150B parameters
- Proprietary models → compared across proprietary and open weights models of the same price range, using a blended 3:1 input/output price ratio:
- <$0.15 per 1M tokens
- $0.15–$1 per 1M tokens
- >$1 per 1M tokens
Intelligence
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task
Cost
Cost per Intelligence Index Task
Speed & Latency
Output Speed
Capability Scores
Capability Indexes
Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, Humanity's Last Exam, AutomationBench-AA, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better
Incorporates 6 evaluations: GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience, AutomationBench-AA, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better
Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, Humanity's Last Exam, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better
Incorporates 6 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, MLCR-AA, Humanity's Last Exam, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better
Incorporates 6 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, Humanity's Last Exam, CritPt, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, Terminal-Bench 4.0 · Higher is better
Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, Humanity's Last Exam, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-LCR v1.1 · Higher is better
Evaluations
Agentic knowledge work, Elo
Knowledge
1 - hallucination rate
Agentic SaaS workflows
Agentic real-world work tasks, Elo
Reasoning & knowledge
Professional document reasoning, All-pass
Agentic coding & terminal use
Long context reasoning
Coding
Physics reasoning
Quantitative analysis on spreadsheets & documents
Kubernetes incident root-cause analysis
Medical long context reasoning
Visual reasoning
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Further details
Weights | Provider Benchmarks | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Max) |  Anthropic | 30 | - | 1M | $2.3 | 56 | Not available |    | |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High) | Anthropic | 25 | - | 1M | $2.3 | 46 | Not available | | |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, Low) | Anthropic | 23 | - | 1M | $2.3 | 47 | Not available | |