Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 4.6

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Input Price
$3.00
/M tokens
Output Price
$15.00
/M tokens
Intelligence
68
/100
Arena Rank
#76
Overall
Coding Rank
#58
Arena
Context
1M
tokens

One9Founders Verdictexcellent

The Goldilocks of frontier AI — near-Opus intelligence at one-fifth the cost. Sonnet 4.6 is the default Claude model for good reason: it matches or beats last-gen flagships while staying affordable for production. Full agent toolkit with MCP and computer use included.

The model that makes Opus-class intelligence affordable for production.

Best For

  • production AI features
  • Claude Code development
  • complex reasoning at scale
  • multi-step agent workflows
  • enterprise SaaS backends

Not Great For

  • tasks where absolute maximum quality justifies 5x cost
  • simple classification (use Haiku)

Startup Recommendation

Best for Series A+ SaaS companies and any team using Claude Code. The obvious default for most production workloads.

Pricing Details

Input
$3.00
per 1M tokens
Output
$15.00
per 1M tokens
Cached Input
$0.30
per 1M tokens
Batch Input
$1.50
per 1M tokens

Capabilities

Function Calling
Structured Output
Vision
-Web Search
-Code Execution
MCP
-Audio Input
-Video Input
Reasoning
Streaming
Batch API
Computer Use

Chatbot Arena Rankings

Overall
#76
Coding
#58
Math
#83
Creative
#50

Security & Compliance

SOC 2 Type II
GDPR
HIPAA
Enterprise SSO
Audit Logs

Training data policy: API data NOT used for training by default

DPDP Act (India): Data processed in US. No India data center. Compliant via DPA.

Data residency: US

India Availability

Available. API accessible from India. Payments via international card. Also on AWS Bedrock (Mumbai).