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Claude Sonnet 4.6 Thinking

anthropic·anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6-thinking·GA·Closed·claude-sonnet series
Balanced Claude model for coding, analysis, agent workflows, and cost control

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Thinking by anthropic is offered by 3 providers on this page. Its reference price is $3.00 per 1M input tokens and $15.00 per 1M output tokens.

The context window is 1,000,000 tokens, with an output limit of 64,000 tokens. It supports reasoning, tool use, and structured output. Accepted input modalities are Text, Image, and PDF. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2025-08-31.

Specs & pricing

Input / output per 1M tokens
Reference price·AIHubMix
$3.00 / $15.00
Blended $6.00 · Cache read $0.30
Lowest paid·NanoGPTGateway
$3.00 / $15.00
Blended $6.00 · 1× spread
Context
1,000,000
Output limit
64,000
Knowledge cutoff
2025-08-31
Released / updated
2026-02-17 / 2026-03-13
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
Modalities
TextImagePDF

Available at 3 providers3 with public prices

ProviderTierInputOutputCache readCache writeContextOutput limitStatus
NanoGPT
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6:thinking
Gateway$3.00$15.00$0.30—1,000,000128,000
302.AI
claude-sonnet-4-6-thinking
Gateway$3.00$15.00——1,000,00064,000
AIHubMix
claude-sonnet-4-6-think
Gateway$3.00
tiered >200K: $6.00
$15.00$0.30$3.751,000,00064,000

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.

Reasoning control

effort = loweffort = mediumeffort = higheffort = xhigheffort = maxToggle (on / off)budget_tokens ≥ 1,024

Interleaved thinking (reasoning between tool calls) is declared by 1 of 3 providers.

1 / 3 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).

Your usage cost

1NanoGPT$1,026.00
2AIHubMix$1,026.00
3302.AI$1,350.00
The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.

Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync

Input listOutput listMin blended
$15.00$02026-08-052026-08-132026-08-05 · Input list $3.002026-08-06 · Input list $3.002026-08-07 · Input list $3.002026-08-08 · Input list $3.002026-08-09 · Input list $3.002026-08-10 · Input list $3.002026-08-11 · Input list $3.002026-08-12 · Input list $3.002026-08-13 · Input list $3.002026-08-05 · Output list $15.002026-08-06 · Output list $15.002026-08-07 · Output list $15.002026-08-08 · Output list $15.002026-08-09 · Output list $15.002026-08-10 · Output list $15.002026-08-11 · Output list $15.002026-08-12 · Output list $15.002026-08-13 · Output list $15.002026-08-05 · Min blended $6.002026-08-06 · Min blended $6.002026-08-07 · Min blended $6.002026-08-08 · Min blended $6.002026-08-09 · Min blended $6.002026-08-10 · Min blended $6.002026-08-11 · Min blended $6.002026-08-12 · Min blended $6.002026-08-13 · Min blended $6.00

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