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Claude Sonnet 4.6

Anthropicfamily · Claude

Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model yet, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work. It excels at iterative development, complex codebase navigation, end-to-end project management with...

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Updated 2 h ago · first seen 11 Sept 2026

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Overview

Identity

Canonical model
Yesidentity confidence: mediumOne row per real model release. Artifacts (checkpoints, quantisations, conversions) and folded evaluation variants point here.
Official checkpoints
None recorded — closed weightsofficial_checkpoints = hf_repo identifiers carried by the model itself; artifacts are separate entities pointing here through canonical_id.
Artifacts
None recordedSeparate entities (checkpoint · quantization · conversion · packaging) pointing to this model through canonical_id.
Provider deployments
2
API aliases
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6claude-sonnet-4-6claude-sonnet-4-6-adaptiveclaude-sonnet-4-6-non-reasoning-low-effortIdentifiers under which providers and evaluators refer to this model.
Folded evaluation variants
2Effort / thinking variants (…-high, …-non-reasoning) are result configurations of this model, not separate models. Their old URLs redirect here.

Openness

Closed / proprietary— weights not available; 7 dimensions unknown.

Weights are not available; the model is reachable only through an API or a product.

  • Weights

    No

  • Inference code

    —

  • Training code

    —

  • Training data

    —

  • Dataset

    —

  • Commercial use

    —

  • Redistribution

    —

  • Derivatives

    —

dimensions marked null are unknown, not false

Key facts

Release date

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium

Status

Source:Claude Developer Platform docsT1observed 13 h agohigh

Retirement date

Source:Claude Developer Platform docsT1observed 13 h agohigh

Openrouter id

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium

Architecture

Tokenizer

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium

Capabilities

Modalities

Modalities
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Input
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Output
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Capabilities

  • Tool calling

    Yes

    OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2

  • Structured output

    Yes

    OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2

  • Reasoning

    Yes

    OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2

  • Vision

    Yes

    OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2

  • Audio

    Unavailable

  • Fine-tuning available

    Unavailable

Context window

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium

Max output

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium

Tokenizer

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium

Benchmarks43

Compare with another model →

Comparable same task and conditions · Partially comparable same task, conditions differ (effort, temperature, judge) · Not comparable different variant or metric

Benchmark results grouped by comparability group
Benchmark · groupBest scoreTrustConfigurationResultsvs leaderEvaluatedSource
Terminal-Benchagentic · accuracy · variant=hard · evaluator=Artificial AnalysisIndependentevaluatorArtificial Analysisvarianthardreasoningadaptivereasoning_effortmaxconditions differ across rows → partially comparable5−12.9 ptvs gpt-5.6-solobs. 12 Sept 2026artificialanalysis.aiT2
Terminal-Benchagentic · accuracy · variant=v4.0 · evaluator=Artificial AnalysisIndependentevaluatorArtificial Analysisvariantv4.0reasoningadaptivereasoning_effortmaxconditions differ across rows → partially comparable2non-primary groupobs. 12 Sept 2026artificialanalysis.aiT2
Terminal-Benchagentic · accuracy · variant=v2.1 · evaluator=Artificial AnalysisIndependentevaluatorArtificial Analysisvariantv2.1reasoningadaptivereasoning_effortmaxconditions differ across rows → partially comparable2non-primary groupobs. 12 Sept 2026artificialanalysis.aiT2
τ²-benchagentic · pass^1 · variant=Telecom · evaluator=Artificial AnalysisIndependentevaluatorArtificial AnalysisvariantTelecomreasoningoffreasoning_efforthighconditions differ across rows → partially comparable3non-primary groupobs. 12 Sept 2026artificialanalysis.aiT2
τ²-benchagentic · pass^1 · evaluator=Artificial AnalysisIndependentevaluatorArtificial Analysis3−19.6 ptvs Z.ai GLM 5.2obs. 11 Sept 2026artificialanalysis.aiT2
SciCodecoding · accuracy · evaluator=Artificial AnalysisIndependentevaluatorArtificial Analysisreasoningadaptivereasoning_effortmaxconditions differ across rows → partially comparable2−13.0 ptvs Claude Fable 5.1obs. 12 Sept 2026artificialanalysis.aiT2
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Indexcomposite · indexIndependentreasoningadaptivereasoning_effortmaxversion4.3conditions differ across rows → partially comparable5−22.9vs Claude Fable 5.1obs. 12 Sept 2026artificialanalysis.aiT2
IFBenchinstruction-following · accuracy · evaluator=Artificial AnalysisIndependentevaluatorArtificial Analysisreasoningadaptivereasoning_effortmaxconditions differ across rows → partially comparable5−26.7 ptvs Grok 4.3obs. 12 Sept 2026artificialanalysis.aiT2
Humanity's Last Examknowledge · accuracy · evaluator=Artificial AnalysisIndependentevaluatorArtificial Analysisreasoningadaptivereasoning_effortmaxconditions differ across rows → partially comparable5−25.5 ptvs Claude Fable 5.1obs. 12 Sept 2026artificialanalysis.aiT2
MMMU-Promultimodal · accuracy · evaluator=Artificial AnalysisIndependentevaluatorArtificial Analysisreasoningadaptivereasoning_effortmaxconditions differ across rows → partially comparable5−13.6 ptvs gpt-6-astraobs. 12 Sept 2026artificialanalysis.aiT2
GPQA Diamondreasoning · accuracy · variant=Diamond · evaluator=Artificial AnalysisIndependentevaluatorArtificial AnalysisvariantDiamondreasoningadaptivereasoning_effortmaxconditions differ across rows → partially comparable3non-primary groupobs. 12 Sept 2026artificialanalysis.aiT2
GPQA Diamondreasoning · accuracy · variant=GPQA Diamond · evaluator=Artificial AnalysisIndependentevaluatorArtificial AnalysisvariantGPQA Diamondreasoningadaptiveconditions differ across rows → partially comparable3−8.79 ptvs gpt-6-astraobs. 11 Sept 2026artificialanalysis.aiT2

Current rows only, grouped by benchmark → canonical metric → comparability group (task configuration). Effort variants folded into this model appear as rows of the same group. 43 current rows in total. “vs leader” compares with the current leader of the benchmark's primary group only; other groups are not directly comparable. Comparability rules →

Providers & Pricing5

All offers in the price terminal →
Provider deployments, cheapest output first
ProviderContextInput / 1MCached inCache writeOutput / 1MNative unitsStatusObservedSource
Anthropic APIcheapest outputanthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6:batch1Mout 128K$0.15$1.88—active3 h agosince 11 Sept 2026openrouter.aiT2
OpenRouteranthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6:batch1Mout 128K$0.15$1.88—active21 min agosince 12 Sept 2026openrouter.aiT2
Anthropic API—$0.30$3.75cache_write_1h_per_mtok=6active13 h agosince 11 Sept 2026platform.claude.comT1
Anthropic APIanthropic/claude-sonnet-4.61Mout 128K$0.30$3.75—active3 h agosince 11 Sept 2026openrouter.aiT2
OpenRouteranthropic/claude-sonnet-4.61Mout 128K$0.30$3.75—active21 min agosince 12 Sept 2026openrouter.aiT2

USD per 1M tokens as published by each provider; native units (per-request fees, flex/priority tiers) are kept verbatim. Rows are append-only — every price change is kept in the history below. Cost of a workload →

Price history

Step lines per provider; amber markers are recorded changes. Click a marker or a row for the evidence behind that price.

Output price · USD / 1M tokens 2 providers

Output price history of Claude Sonnet 4.6$0$5$10$15$20Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26Anthropic API: first observed → $15 · 11 Sept 2026Anthropic API: $15 → $7.5 · 11 Sept 2026OpenRouter: first observed → $15 · 12 Sept 2026OpenRouter: $15 → $7.5 · 12 Sept 2026
  • Anthropic API
  • OpenRouter
  • OpenRouter$15 → $7.512 Sept 2026
  • OpenRouterfirst observed $1512 Sept 2026
  • Anthropic API$15 → $7.511 Sept 2026
  • Anthropic APIfirst observed $1511 Sept 2026

Input price · USD / 1M tokens 2 providers

Input price history of Claude Sonnet 4.6$0$1$2$3$4Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26Anthropic API: first observed → $3 · 11 Sept 2026Anthropic API: $3 → $1.5 · 11 Sept 2026OpenRouter: first observed → $3 · 12 Sept 2026OpenRouter: $3 → $1.5 · 12 Sept 2026
  • Anthropic API
  • OpenRouter
  • OpenRouter$3 → $1.512 Sept 2026
  • OpenRouterfirst observed $312 Sept 2026
  • Anthropic API$3 → $1.511 Sept 2026
  • Anthropic APIfirst observed $311 Sept 2026

Versions & Artifacts0

Version history

Status1 change

11 Sept 2026→11 Sept 2026current

Context windowfirst observation only

11 Sept 2026current

Max outputfirst observation only

11 Sept 2026current

Opennessfirst observation only

11 Sept 2026current

Each hop is a claim: click a value for its source, tier and observation time. Nothing is overwritten — a new observation closes the previous claim.

Artifacts 0

No artifact (checkpoint, quantisation, conversion or packaging) points to this model yet.

Timeline24

Full timeline →

Change history42

Temporal, append-only claims: a new observation closes the previous claim instead of overwriting it. Rewind the record with the as-of picker.

Viewing AI Atlas as of 12 Mar 2026 — attributes exactly as the atlas knew them on that day; later corrections are not shown.

Back to today →

Claude Sonnet 4.6 was not yet in AI Atlas on 12 Mar 2026

First seen 11 Sept 2026. Nothing is inferred backwards: no attribute is shown for dates before the first observation.
42 claims · 26 properties1 conflicting

Familyfamily1

Claim history for Family
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Claude → currentcurrentClaude Developer Platform docsT1highdeterministic

Release daterelease_date1

Claim history for Release date
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
17 Feb 2026 → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Statusstatus3conflicting claims

Claim history for Status
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
deprecated → currentconflictingArtificial AnalysisT2mediumdeterministic
deprecated → currentcurrentArtificial AnalysisT2mediumdeterministic
active → currentcurrentClaude Developer Platform docsT1conflicteddeterministic

Opennessopenness3

Claim history for Openness
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
proprietary → currentcurrentArtificial AnalysisT2mediumdeterministic
proprietary → currentcurrentArtificial AnalysisT2mediumdeterministic
proprietary → currentcurrentClaude Developer Platform docsT1highdeterministic

Context windowcontext_length3

Claim history for Context window
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
1M tokens → currentcurrentArtificial AnalysisT2mediumdeterministic
1M tokens → currentcurrentArtificial AnalysisT2mediumdeterministic
1M tokens → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Max outputmax_output_tokens1

Claim history for Max output
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
128K tokens → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Modalitiesmodalities2

Claim history for Modalities
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
document, image, text → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic
image, text → supersededOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Input modalitiesmodalities_input2

Claim history for Input modalities
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
document, image, text → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic
image, text → supersededOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Output modalitiesmodalities_output1

Claim history for Output modalities
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
text → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Tokenizertokenizer1

Claim history for Tokenizer
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Claude → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Retirement dateretirement_date1

Claim history for Retirement date
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
17 Feb 2027 → currentcurrentClaude Developer Platform docsT1highdeterministic

Retirement tentativeretirement_tentative1

Claim history for Retirement tentative
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Yes → currentcurrentClaude Developer Platform docsT1highdeterministic

Aa context windowaa_context_window1

Claim history for Aa context window
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
1,000,000 tokens → currentcurrentArtificial AnalysisT2mediumdeterministic

Aa deprecatedaa_deprecated1

Claim history for Aa deprecated
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Yes → currentcurrentArtificial AnalysisT2mediumdeterministic

Aa opennessaa_openness1

Claim history for Aa openness
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
proprietary → currentcurrentArtificial AnalysisT2mediumdeterministic

Descriptiondescription1

Claim history for Description
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model yet, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work. It excels at iterative development, complex codebase navigation, end-to-end project management with... → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

File inputfile_input1

Claim history for File input
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Yes → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Aa median output tokens per secondmetric.aa_median_output_tokens_per_second3

Claim history for Aa median output tokens per second
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
42.4 → currentcurrentArtificial AnalysisT2mediumdeterministic
57.8 → currentcurrentArtificial AnalysisT2mediumdeterministic
42.2 → currentcurrentArtificial AnalysisT2mediumdeterministic

Openrouter idopenrouter_id1

Claim history for Openrouter id
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Openrouter listed atopenrouter_listed_at1

Claim history for Openrouter listed at
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
17 Feb 2026 → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Reasoningreasoning7

Claim history for Reasoning
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Yes → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic
No → supersededArtificial AnalysisT2mediumdeterministic
Yes → supersededOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic
No → currentcurrentArtificial AnalysisT2mediumdeterministic
Yes → currentcurrentArtificial AnalysisT2mediumdeterministic
No → supersededArtificial AnalysisT2mediumdeterministic
Yes → supersededOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Structured outputstructured_output1

Claim history for Structured output
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Yes → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Supported parameterssupported_parameters1

Claim history for Supported parameters
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
include_reasoning, max_completion_tokens, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_k, top_p, verbosity → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Tool callingtool_calling1

Claim history for Tool calling
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Yes → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Visionvision1

Claim history for Vision
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Yes → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Weights availableweights_available1

Claim history for Weights available
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
No → currentcurrentAI Atlas curated registry (YAML, versioned in git, every entry carries its source URL)T2highderived

Claims are temporal and append-only: a new observation closes the previous claim (valid_to) instead of overwriting it. Conflicting claims from different sources are kept side by side and flagged — never averaged. Methodology →

Provenance

Attributed facts

26

Source tiers

T1T25 / 21

Freshest observation

2 h ago

Conflicts

1 flagged

Source documents 4

Source documents
SourceDocumentTypeTierLast observedSnapshots
Claude Developer Platform docsdocs.claude.com/en/docs/about-claude/model-deprecations.md model_docsT1· Official1 h ago1
Claude Developer Platform docsdocs.claude.com/en/docs/about-claude/pricing.md pricingT1· Official1 h ago1
OpenRouter public model & pricing listingopenrouter.ai/api/v1/models catalogueT2· Quality secondary21 min ago10
Artificial Analysisartificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models leaderboardT2· Quality secondary3 h ago2

Tier 1 = official/primary, 2 = quality secondary, 3 = community, 4 = unverified. Every snapshot is archived; see all sources and the methodology.

Data quality (67/100) measures how well AI Atlas knows this entity — completeness, primary-source ratio, freshness, conflicts — never how good the model is. Methodology →