Anthropic: 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.

Context
1M
Max output
128K
Input price
$3/1M tokens
Output price
$15/1M tokens

Capabilities

Reasoning & Interaction
Reasoning
Tool Calling
Output Control
Structured Output
JSON Mode

Details

Model IDanthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
Provider OpenRouter
Creator Anthropic
License—
Status—
Typechat
Input modalitiestext, image
Output modalitiestext
Open weight—
Parameters—
Architecture—
Context window1M tokens
Max input—
Max output128K tokens
Reasoning tokens—
Knowledge cutoff—
Release date
Sourceofficial

Tools

Function Callingfunction_calling
Call external functions and APIs

Pricing

Input
$3
Output
$15
Cache write
—
Cache read
$0.3
Batch in
—
Batch out
—

Family Comparison: claude-sonnet

ModelContextMax outPricing
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)1M128K$1$5
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (batch)1M128K$1$5
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch)1M64K$1.5$7.5
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (batch)1M128K$1.5$7.5
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest1M128K$2$10
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.51M128K$2$10
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 51M128K$2$10
Anthropic: Claude 3.7 Sonnet (thinking)200K64K$3$15
Anthropic: Claude 3.7 Sonnet200K64K$3$15
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.51M64K$3$15
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.61M128K$3$15
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4200K64K$3$15
Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Sonnet200K8K$6$30

API

GET/v1/models/openrouter/anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6

anthropic/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.

Changes · 3 entries
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6update1cd659eMar 24, 2026, 04:19 AM
capabilitiesjson modeyes
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6update2b100acMar 23, 2026, 05:30 AM
model_typechat
release_date2026-02-17
taglineSonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model...
tools["function_calling"]
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6create7f5c66fMar 21, 2026, 05:16 AM