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Claude Sonnet 4.6

Cost-efficient Claude for everyday coding and assistant workloads.

#428released May 5, 2026·Proprietary·Not disclosed
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Intelligence
38.1 #428
Top 58% tier
Output Speed
50 t/s
ITL 20.0 ms/tok
Blended price (3:1)
$6 /1M
In $3/M · Out $15/M
Context
1M
≈ 2,500 A4 pages · max out 16,384

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6-Axis Frontier Evaluation vs Category Average & Flagship

Claude Sonnet 4.6
Claude Mythos Preview (#1)
Average (68)
Coding (22.6)Mathematics (30.7)Hard Science (GPQA) (46.7)Agentic & Tool Use (15)Knowledge (MMLU) (15)Vision / Multimodal (15)

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Model Details

Release date
May 5, 2026
Parameters
Not disclosed
License
Proprietary
Context Window
1,000,000 tokens
Input Price
$3/M
Output Price
$15/M
Output Speed
50 t/s
Time to First Token
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@misc{llmpodium2026claudesonnet46,
  title = {Benchmark Analysis and Intelligence Evaluation of Claude Sonnet 4.6},
  author = {LLMPodium Research},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://llmpodium.com/models/claude-sonnet-4-6}
}

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