Claude Sonnet 4.6

Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model yet, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work. It excels at iterative development, complex codebase navigation, end-to-end project management with...

by Anthropic

Overview

Quick stats across all benchmark runs.

Score

57%

4 benchmarks

Avg Latency

5.0s

19 requests

Pricing

$3.00 in / $15.00 out

per 1M tokens

Context

1000K

tokens

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Benchmark Performance

How this model performs across different benchmarks

BenchmarkScoreRank
Explain Like I'm 5
100%
2 / 47
Categorization Bench
77%
4 / 54
Money Boy Cultural Literacy Test
30%
85 / 107

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Score Over Time

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Benchmark Activity

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Get started with this model using OpenRouter

import { OpenRouter } from "@openrouter/sdk";

const openrouter = new OpenRouter({
  apiKey: "<OPENROUTER_API_KEY>"
});

const completion = await openrouter.chat.completions.create({
  model: "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6",
  messages: [
    {
      role: "user",
      content: "Hello!"
    }
  ]
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

Get your API key at openrouter.ai/keys

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Claude Opus 4.73.5s$15.0053%
Claude Haiku 4.511.1s$3.0047%
Claude 3 Haiku3.5s$0.7543%
Claude 3.5 Haiku7.4s$2.4026%
Claude Sonnet 428.3s$9.00
Claude Opus 460.9s$45.00
Claude Opus 4.179.9s$45.00
Claude 3.5 Haiku (2024-10-22)$2.40
Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast)$90.00
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)$90.00
Claude 3.5 Sonnet17.7s$18.00
Claude 3.7 Sonnet16.3s$9.00