Claude Sonnet 4.6

Anthropic's latest Sonnet model with improved coding, analysis, and complex reasoning capabilities.

Input price
$3.30
Output price
$16.50
Context
1M
Max output
128K
Modalities
InputTextImagePDFOutputText
153 (#40 of 89)
1458
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Released
2026-02-18
Knowledge cutoff
2025-08-31
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Providers

Providers that serve this model. With Auto, each request goes to the best available provider. Prices in USD per 1M tokens; stats cover the last 30 days.

Pricing

Prices vary by provider. Showing Anthropic, the lowest. Pick a provider above to see its prices.

Input
$3.30
per 1M tokens
Output
$16.50
per 1M tokens
Cache read
$0.33
per 1M tokens
Cache write (5 min)
$4.125
per 1M tokens
Cache write (1 hour)
$6.60
per 1M tokens
Batch input
$1.65
per 1M tokens
Batch output
$8.25
per 1M tokens
Web search
$0.011
per request

Make a request

Set your provider preferences, then copy the request. It reads your API key from OHMYGPT_API_KEY.

Anthropic Messages supports pinning one provider only. Other preferences work with Chat Completions and Responses.

curl https://api.ohmygpt.com/v1/messages \
  -H "x-api-key: $OHMYGPT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "anthropic-version: 2023-06-01" \
  -d '{
    "model": "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6",
    "max_tokens": 1024,
    "messages": [
      {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "Hello"
      }
    ]
  }'

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Capability scores are from Epoch AI’s Epoch Capabilities Index (CC BY 4.0, as of 2026-11-02), which combines dozens of benchmarks with GPT-5 set at 150. epoch.ai/eci

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