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Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6
anthropic·anthropic/anthropic-claude-4.6-sonnet·GA·Closed·claude-sonnet series
Balanced Claude model for coding, analysis, agent workflows, and cost control
At a glance
Reference price$3.00 / $15.00 per 1M
Cache read $0.30 · DigitalOcean
Lowest paid$3.00 / $15.00
DigitalOcean Cloud
Context200,000
Output limit8,192
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use? Structured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff2025-08-31
Released / updated2026-02-17 / 2026-03-13
Quality & performance
Artificial Analysis doesn't cover this model (267 of 2059 have data). Quality data comes from independent evals covering widely used models.
Available at 1 providers1 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DigitalOcean | Cloud | $3.00 tiered >200K: $6.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | 200,000 | 8,192 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1DigitalOcean$1,026.00
The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.
Benchmark
No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.
Reasoning control
effort = loweffort = mediumeffort = higheffort = max
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended