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Claude Sonnet 4.6

by DaoXE · family claude-sonnet · listed Feb 2026RTV

Claude workhorse for coding agents, careful analysis, and production cost control

Current rates USD per 1M tokens

Input$3.00
Output$15.00
Cache read$0.30
Cache write$3.75

Against the market

Input price vs. maker flagships ($/1M tokens)
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpDeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: $0.14 per 1M tokens$0.14Gemini Flash LatestGemini Flash Latest: $0.75 per 1M tokens$0.75GLM-5.2GLM-5.2: $1.40 per 1M tokens$1.40Grok 4.6Grok 4.6: $2.00 per 1M tokens$2.00Qwen3.8 MaxQwen3.8 Max: $2.00 per 1M tokens$2.00Claude Sonnet 4.6Claude Sonnet 4.6: $3.00 per 1M tokens$3.00GPT-5.6 SolGPT-5.6 Sol: $4.00 per 1M tokens$4.00Claude Opus 5Claude Opus 5: $5.00 per 1M tokens$5.00
Output price vs. maker flagships ($/1M tokens)
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpDeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: $0.28 per 1M tokens$0.28Gemini Flash LatestGemini Flash Latest: $3.75 per 1M tokens$3.75GLM-5.2GLM-5.2: $4.40 per 1M tokens$4.40Grok 4.6Grok 4.6: $6.00 per 1M tokens$6.00Qwen3.8 MaxQwen3.8 Max: $6.00 per 1M tokens$6.00Claude Sonnet 4.6Claude Sonnet 4.6: $15.00 per 1M tokens$15.00GPT-5.6 SolGPT-5.6 Sol: $20.00 per 1M tokens$20.00Claude Opus 5Claude Opus 5: $25.00 per 1M tokens$25.00

On the record

Model id
claude-sonnet-4-6
Context window
1M tokens
Max output
64K tokens
Input modalities
text, image, pdf
Output modalities
text
Reasoning
yes
Tool calls
yes
Open weights
no
Knowledge cutoff
Aug 2025
Released
2026-02-17
Last updated
2026-03-13
Provider docs
daoxe.com/pricing

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