Claude Sonnet 4.6

Anthropic llm

Mid-tier Sonnet upgrade with a 1M-token beta context window, approaching Opus-level intelligence at Sonnet 4.5 pricing.

overall ⌄

64.1

17 of 93 ranked

price · $/M tokens

3 / 15

in / out, as of 2026-07-25

to run it yourself ⌄

API only

no weights to run

Benchmarks

What its maker published, and what anyone else measured. Every figure links the document it came from.

benchmarkpublishedmeasured
GPQA89.9
AIME 202595.6
SWE-bench79.6
SWE-bench Pro58.1
HLE34.6
BrowseComp74

Cheaper, and at least as good

On a 1,000-in, 1,000-out call these cost less and rank no lower — a hard comparison to argue with, and a narrow one. Value covers what it misses.

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GLM-5.2 Z.ai$0.00580overall 68.2
Gemini 3.1 Pro Google$0.0140overall 71.6

Lineage

No recorded lineage — root or standalone model.

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Metadata

orgAnthropic
released2026-02-17
licenseproprietary