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# Claude Sonnet 4.6
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## Overview
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic’s most advanced Sonnet model to date, optimized for real-world agents and coding workflows. It delivers state-of-the-art performance on coding benchmarks such as SWE-bench Verified, with improvements across system design, code security, and specification adherence. The model is designed for extended autonomous operation, maintaining task continuity across sessions and providing fact-based progress tracking. Sonnet 4.6 also introduces stronger agentic capabilities, including improved tool orchestration, speculative parallel execution, and more efficient context and memory management. With enhanced context tracking and awareness of token usage across tool calls, it is particularly well-suited for multi-context and long-running workflows. Use cases span software engineering, cybersecurity, financial analysis, research agents, and other domains requiring sustained reasoning and tool use.
## Model Metadata
- Display name: Claude Sonnet 4.6
- Model ID: claude-sonnet-4-6
- Provider family: Anthropic
- Release date: 2026-02-17T12:00:00.000Z
- Context window: 200K
- Max output: 64K
- Input modalities: text, image
- Output modalities: text
- Tool use support: Yes
- Computer use support: Yes
- Cache control support: Yes
## Official Pricing (per 1M tokens)
| Metric | <=200K Context | >200K Context |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Input Price | $3 | $6 |
| Output Price | $15 | $22.5 |
| Cache Read | $0.3 | — |
| Cache Write | $3.75 | — |
| Image Input | $0 | — |
| Image Output | $0 | — |

## Provider Availability
| Provider | Region | Context Window | Max Output | Input Price | Output Price | Cache Read | Cache Write |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AWS | — | 200K | 64K | $3 | $15 | $0.3 | $3.75 |