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Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 4.6

Anthropic's previous-generation Sonnet, since followed by Sonnet 5 and 5.5, balancing near-Opus quality with lower cost.

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Our editorial assessment, based on the public sources listed below. Last reviewed .

Overall rank
#40
Tier
A
Score
81.3
Main category
Coding

Strengths

  • 1M-token context in beta at unchanged pricing
  • Preferred over Opus in many Claude Code sessions
  • Strong agentic coding with multi-hour autonomous runs

Considerations

  • Lower ceiling than Opus 4.6/4.7 on hardest tasks
  • Extended thinking adds latency
  • Text-only output

Price

Claude Pro $20/mo · API ~$3/$15 per 1M tokens

Shown for reference — price is not part of the score.

Score breakdown

Performance
80.0
55% of score
Reputation
86.0
35% of score
Recency
72.0
10% of score

The overall score combines these sub-scores using the weights shown. How we score →

Verification status

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