Claude Sonnet 4.6 Pricing
Anthropic · Sonnet · Deprecated
Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens on the Anthropic API. Cached input reads are billed at $0.3 per million tokens. It supports a 1,000,000-token context window and up to 64,000 output tokens per request. The model supports extended reasoning, image input, tool use, long context. Pricing verified July 12, 2026.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 API pricing
Claude Sonnet 4.6 API pricing is $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, verified July 12, 2026.
- Input (per 1M tokens)
- $3
- Output (per 1M tokens)
- $15
- Cached input (per 1M tokens)
- $0.3
- Cache write, 5m TTL
- $3.75
- Cache write, 1h TTL
- $6
- Batch discount
- 50%
- Context window
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Max output
- 64,000 tokens
Capabilities
Claude Sonnet 4.6 supports extended reasoning, image input, tool use, long context.
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Notes
Superseded by Claude Sonnet 5 (released June 30, 2026) — near-Opus performance at $2/$10 introductory pricing with 1M-token context window. Sonnet 4.6 API endpoints remain available but Sonnet 5 is the default across Claude apps.