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Claude Sonnet 4.6

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

Key facts

Provider
Anthropic
Context window
1M tokens
Max output
128K tokens
Input price
$3 / M tok
Output price
$15 / M tok
Knowledge cutoff
Aug 31, 2025
Released
Feb 17, 2026
License

Capabilities

ReasoningTool callingStructured outputFile attachmentsTemperature controlOpen weights

Reasoning options

  • effort low · medium · high · max
  • budget_tokens min 1024

Pricing

USD per million tokens, list API rates.

Input
$3
Output
$15
Cache read
$0.3
Cache write
$3.75

Modalities

Input
Text, Image, Pdf
Output
Text

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