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Claude Sonnet 4.6

Anthropic's best value model. 79.6% SWE-bench, 72.5% OSWorld — near-Opus performance at 40% less cost. Extended thinking with streaming.

4.8/ 5.0
Free Tier
200K context
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Pricing

Free
Limited features
$20/month
Pro plan
API Pricing
Input$3/1M tokens
Output$15/1M tokens

Ratings

Overall
4.8
Coding
4.9
Writing
4.9
Reasoning
4.8
Speed
4.6
Value
4.9

Pros

  • 79.6% SWE-bench — near-Opus performance
  • 72.5% OSWorld — excellent agentic scores
  • 40% cheaper than Opus 4.6
  • Fast response times
  • Free tier available

Cons

  • Slightly behind Opus on hardest tasks
  • Limited free tier messages

Benchmark Results

SWE-bench Verified
79.6%#2
OSWorld
72.5%#2

Best For

Production coding, daily writing, cost-effective AI deployment

Quick Info

Provider
Anthropic
Version
4.6
Released
Feb 2026
Context
200K tokens

Features

Vision/Images
Audio
Video
PDF Processing
Code Generation
AI Agents

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