Claude Sonnet 4.6

anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217

Claude Sonnet 4.6 by Anthropic processes text, image, and file inputs to generate text output. It supports tool usage and reasoning, has a context window of 1,

  • tool use
  • structured outputs
  • reasoning

At a glance

provideranthropic
releasedFeb 17, 2026
context1M
input / M$3

Specifications

What the API gives you

Context window
1M tokens
Max output
128K tokens
Input price
$3 / 1M tokens
Output price
$15 / 1M tokens
Cache read
$0.30 / 1M tokens
Modalities
text, image, file → text
Knowledge cutoff
Released
Feb 17, 2026

Recommendation coverage

Where this model appears

Not currently included in a published recommendation. This means the available task-specific evidence did not support a ranking yet—not that the model was reviewed and rejected.

Measured evidence

Public benchmark record

LMArena Agent
22026-07-13
LMArena Agent
3.22026-07-20
LMArena Text
1457 Elo2026-07-16
LMArena Vision
1282 Elo2026-07-12
LMArena WebDev
1522 Elo2026-07-16
LMArena WebDev
1522 Elo2026-07-20

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