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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
At a glance
Reference price$3.00 / $15.00 per 1M
Cache read $0.30 · AIHubMix
Lowest paid$3.00 / $15.00
NanoGPT Gateway · 1× spread
Context1,000,000
Output limit64,000
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 3 providers3 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NanoGPT anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6:thinking | Gateway | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | — | 1,000,000 | 128,000 | |
| 302.AI claude-sonnet-4-6-thinking | Gateway | $3.00 | $15.00 | — | — | 1,000,000 | 64,000 | |
| AIHubMix claude-sonnet-4-6-think | Gateway | $3.00 tiered >200K: $6.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | 1,000,000 | 64,000 |
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.
Your usage cost
1NanoGPT$1,026.00
2AIHubMix$1,026.00
3302.AI$1,350.00
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 = xhigheffort = maxToggle (on / off)budget_tokens ≥ 1,024
1 / 3 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
Related models
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended