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Claude 4.xClaude Sonnet 4.6
The workhorse. Near-Opus quality at 1/5 the cost. The default choice for production code and agent workloads.
Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$15.00
Context
500K
Released
Nov 4, 2025
Benchmark profile
Profile
MMLU-Pro88.7%
HumanEval92.1%
SWE-Bench64.5%
MATH85.0%
GPQA59.4%
MMMU74.1%
Scores
Editorial
Strengths
- +Excellent cost/quality ratio
- +Fast inference
- +Great for Cursor/Claude Code
Trade-offs
- −Slightly behind Opus on the hardest coding tasks
Price history (last 90 days)
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Output / 1M
What this costs to use
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Where to buy
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