Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic’s best speed-to-intelligence balance, with strong reasoning and coding plus the full 1M-token context window.
Capability profile
- Input
- $3 / MTok
- Output
- $15 / MTok
- Cached input
- $0.30 / MTok cache hit
- Context
- 1M tokens
- Free tier
- No / unknown
- API
- Available
- Subscription
- Claude API, claude.ai, Bedrock, Vertex AI, Foundry
- Open-source status
- Closed
- Balanced production use where you want strong reasoning
- speed
- and long context without paying Opus rates.
- General agents
- code assistance
- enterprise search/synthesis
- and document workflows.
- Absolute frontier performance comparisons against the strongest premium models.
- Ultra-cheap inference or purely lightweight chatbot use.
Sonnet is often the pragmatic Anthropic choice. It gives you enough intelligence to do real work without immediately making every request feel expensive.
Anthropic’s best speed-to-intelligence balance, with strong reasoning and coding plus the full 1M-token context window.
Post Reboot take
Sonnet is often the pragmatic Anthropic choice. It gives you enough intelligence to do real work without immediately making every request feel expensive.
Strengths
Best for: Balanced production use where you want strong reasoning, speed, and long context without paying Opus rates.
Weakest at: Absolute frontier performance comparisons against the strongest premium models.
Best workflows: General agents, code assistance, enterprise search/synthesis, and document workflows.
Example use cases: Knowledge workers, internal copilots, ops analysis, and product-side AI features.