Claude Sonnet 4.6 API Pricing Calculator

Track Claude Sonnet 4.6 pricing with real-time alerts, compare providers, and monitor cost changes across high-performance balanced AI workflows.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a multimodal model from Anthropic, released 17 February 2026. It has a 200,000-token context window. Pricing runs from $1.50 to $3.00 per million input tokens, depending on service tier. It replaces Claude Sonnet 3.7 and Claude Sonnet 4.

Last updated Oct 18, 2026

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Model Details

Released
Feb 17, 2026
Context Length
200,000

Where is Claude Sonnet 4.6 a perfect fit?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is built for maximum efficiency within the balanced tier, offering improved reliability and consistency over previous Sonnet versions. Ideal for:
- Production-grade chatbots and assistants with consistent outputs
- Coding, debugging, and developer workflows with better accuracy
- Content generation pipelines requiring fewer errors
- Data extraction, classification, and structured outputs
- Enterprise automation needing reliability at scale
- Applications optimizing cost vs performance trade-offs

Quick Model Estimate

(USD 3.0000 per 1M tokens)
(USD 15.0000 per 1M tokens)

Your Claude Sonnet 4.6 Cost Estimate

💰 Total Cost

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for 1000 input + 1000 output tokens

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Cost Breakdown

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Prices are watched for changes and checked against the provider's own page.

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Anthropic LogoAnthropicTextStandard$3.0000$15.0000$0.3000$6.0000200,000 tokens→
Anthropic LogoAnthropicTextBatch$1.5000$7.5000N/AN/A200,000 tokens→

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The last prices each provider charged for Claude Sonnet 4.6 before it stopped offering it. These are no longer on offer. Each row links to that provider's price history.

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Perplexity LogoPerplexity17th Oct 2026Provider stopped offering itTextStandard$3.0000$15.0000$0.3000200,000 tokens→

Recent changes

When Claude Sonnet 4.6 was newly listed on a provider, moved to legacy or deprecated, or retired.

  1. Discontinued

    Perplexity stopped offering Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.6.

See all changes, new releases and retirements →

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FAQs about Claude Sonnet 4.6

How much does Claude Sonnet 4.6 cost per 1M tokens?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs between $1.50 and $3.00 per million input tokens, and between $7.50 and $15.00 per million output tokens. The range covers Standard and Batch pricing.

What does a typical workload cost with Claude Sonnet 4.6?

1,000 requests of 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each — 2,000,000 input and 500,000 output tokens in total — costs $6.75 with Claude Sonnet 4.6 at its lowest rates. Use the calculator on this page for your own volumes.

Where can I use Claude Sonnet 4.6?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is available through Anthropic, from $1.50 per million input tokens.

Is there cheaper Claude Sonnet 4.6 pricing than the standard rate?

Yes. Batch pricing for Claude Sonnet 4.6 starts at $1.50 per million input tokens against $3.00 on the standard tier, about 50% lower.

What is Claude Sonnet 4.6's context window?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 has a context window of 200,000 tokens.