Pricing · Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic's claude-sonnet-4-6, 1M tokens of context. Every number on this page was read off Anthropic's own pricing
page — never estimated, never recalled from memory.
From Anthropic's documentation
- Batch API: “Max output (Batch API, beta) 300K tokens” (model page, read October 1, 2026)
- Inputs and outputs: “Input → output Text and images → text” (model page, read October 1, 2026)
- Where it runs: “Platforms Claude API Amazon Bedrock (InvokeModel) Google Cloud Microsoft Foundry Claude Platform on AWS” (model page, read October 1, 2026)
Status at Anthropic
- Status: Active (legacy)
- "Although Claude Sonnet 4.6 is still available, you should consider migrating to Claude Sonnet 5.5 for improved performance." Claude Sonnet 5.5 pricing →
- Released February 17, 2026.
- Reliable knowledge cutoff Aug 2025; training data cutoff Jan 2026.
- Thinking: Adaptive (extended deprecated). Default effort: high.
Read on Anthropic's model page on September 30, 2026.
Pricing
| Input | $3.00 | per 1M tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $15.00 | per 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $0.30 | per 1M tokens · 0.1× the input price |
| Cache write (5 min TTL) | $3.75 | per 1M tokens |
| Cache write (1 h TTL) | $6.00 | per 1M tokens |
| Batch API | −50% | off input and output · verified September 16, 2026 against Anthropic's pricing page |
At the calculator's starting volume, 1M input tokens and 200K output tokens with no cache hits, Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs $6.00: $3.00 for input and $3.00 for output, at the prices above. Same formula as the calculator; change the volume there.
Where this price sits
$3.00 per 1M input tokens is the 52nd cheapest input price of the 67 current models with a verified price on this site, and the 4th of Anthropic's 14. Output costs 5.0× the input price.
Other current models in the Sonnet family:
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 1M tokens $2.00 in · $10.00 out
- Claude Sonnet 5 1M tokens $2.00 in · $10.00 out
Other price lists Anthropic publishes for Claude Sonnet 4.6
The prices above are Anthropic's Standard list, the one the table and the calculator use. Anthropic also sells Claude Sonnet 4.6 on one other list, each with a condition. Figures and wording are quoted from Anthropic's own pages as read on the date shown; this site computes none of them.
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Batch · 50% discount on both input and output tokens · wait: results when the batch completes or after 24 hours
Printed for Claude Sonnet 4.6: $1.50 input, $7.50 output, per 1M tokens.
The Batch API allows asynchronous processing of large volumes of requests with a 50% discount on both input and output tokens.
You can access batch results when all messages have completed or after 24 hours, whichever comes first.
Source, read September 16, 2026
Against Claude Sonnet 4.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the earlier version of the same name in this dataset (deprecated). Claude Sonnet 4.6 has the same prices as Claude Sonnet 4.5: input price ($3.00), output price ($15.00), cached input price ($0.30) per 1M tokens. Its prices were verified September 28, 2026: Claude Sonnet 4.5 pricing →
Specifications
| API model id | claude-sonnet-4-6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Family | Sonnet | |
| Context window | 1M tokens | |
| Max output | 128K tokens | |
| Status | Current | |
| Earliest retirement | Not before February 17, 2027 — no firm date announced | |
It returns up to 128K tokens per response, against a context window of 1M tokens. Anthropic has committed not to retire it before February 17, 2027; no firm date is announced.
Questions about Claude Sonnet 4.6 pricing
- How much does Claude Sonnet 4.6 cost per million tokens?
- $3.00 per 1M input tokens and $15.00 per 1M output tokens, read on Anthropic's official pricing page on September 28, 2026.
- What does a cached input token cost on Claude Sonnet 4.6?
- $0.30 per 1M cached input tokens, 10% of the $3.00 input price; a 5-minute cache write costs $3.75, a 1-hour cache write costs $6.00 per 1M tokens.
Batch API discount (batchDiscount 0.5) verified by hand on 2026-09-16 against Anthropic's general pricing page, 'Batch processing' section: 'The Batch API allows asynchronous processing of large volumes of requests with a 50% discount on both input and output tokens', table row 'Claude Sonnet 4.6 $1.50 / MTok $7.50 / MTok'. Context window and max output read on Anthropic's model page (platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/sonnet-4-6/overview) on 2026-09-30: 'Claude Sonnet 4.6 This model Legacy | 1M | 128K | $3 / $15 |' ('Context window 1M tokens', 'Max output 128K tokens').
Verified September 28, 2026 against Anthropic's official pricing page. Confidence: confirmed. No price change recorded for this model. How the data is checked.
Other Anthropic models with a verified price
- Claude Haiku 4.5 Haiku $1.00 in · $5.00 out
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 Sonnet $2.00 in · $10.00 out
- Claude Sonnet 5 Sonnet $2.00 in · $10.00 out
- Claude Opus 5.5 Opus $4.00 in · $20.00 out
- Claude Opus 5 Opus $5.00 in · $25.00 out
- Claude Opus 4.8 Opus $5.00 in · $25.00 out
- Claude Opus 4.7 Opus $5.00 in · $25.00 out
- Claude Opus 4.6 Opus $5.00 in · $25.00 out
- Claude Opus 4.5 Opus $5.00 in · $25.00 out
- Claude Fable 5.1 Fable $10.00 in · $50.00 out
- Claude Mythos 5.1 Mythos $10.00 in · $50.00 out
- Claude Fable 5 Fable $10.00 in · $50.00 out
- Claude Mythos 5 Mythos $10.00 in · $50.00 out
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