Claude Sonnet 4.6 API Benchmarks, Pricing & Provider Data
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Claude Sonnet 4.6 benchmark, API pricing, and provider data cover 827 API providers, with prices starting at $0.0030/request. Claude Sonnet 4.6 free API options are available from 5 providers. The page also shows measured API speed and first-token latency.
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 extends the Sonnet line with improved tool use, coding reliability, and long-context performance for everyday production workloads.
Category Performance
Observed-capability estimates with uncertainty reported separately from independent benchmark families.
- Coverage
- 7 / 8
- Methodology
- V3.0
#1Knowledge70.6Provisional1/4 Measured dimensions
#2Coding55.9RatedGlobal rank #133/4 Measured dimensions
#3Math53.2Provisional1/4 Measured dimensions
#4Agents52.7RatedGlobal rank #294/4 Measured dimensions
#5Reasoning49.8RatedGlobal rank #413/4 Measured dimensions
#6Multimodal45.7Provisional1/4 Measured dimensions
#7Instruction following43.7Provisional1/4 Measured dimensions
Specifications
Input and output token limits for this model, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.
Features
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Detailed scores
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Overall score59.0#39 / 100
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Input price$3.00/M#156 / 181Output price$15.00/M#156 / 181
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Agents
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Score52.7#2980% interval46.5–58.84/4 Measured dimensionsAgentic score55.0#42 / 69Terminal-Bench 2.059.1#35 / 53
Agents
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Coding
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Score55.9#1380% interval47.4–64.53/4 Measured dimensionsSciCode46.8%#39 / 206Coding score63.2#10 / 81
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Reasoning
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Score49.8#4180% interval41.2–58.53/4 Measured dimensionsMMLU-Pro79.2%#69 / 129GPQA87.5%#46 / 213
Reasoning
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Knowledge
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Score70.680% interval54.3–86.91/4 Measured dimensionsKnowledge score76.1#19 / 69SuperGPQA95.0#1 / 16
Knowledge
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Math
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Score53.280% interval37.1–69.21/4 Measured dimensionsMath score49.4#37 / 62FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)32.4#18 / 47
Math
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Multilingual
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No data80% interval30.8–69.20/4 Measured dimensions
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Multimodal
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Score45.780% interval29.6–61.81/4 Measured dimensionsMultimodal Grounded score44.5#36 / 44CharXiv77.4#24 / 29
Multimodal
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Instruction following
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Score43.780% interval27.7–59.71/4 Measured dimensionsAA-IFBench41.2#67 / 84
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OpenRouter endpoints
9 endpointsThird-party OpenRouter endpoint data, shown separately from LMSpeed measurements. Some 30-minute live performance fields only appear after syncing with an OpenRouter API key.
| Provider endpoint | Input | Output | 1d uptime | 30m latency | 30m throughput | Context / output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Google google-vertex/europe | $3.30/M | $16.50/M | 100% | — | — | undefined tokens / undefined tokens |
Google google-vertex/us-east5 | $3.30/M | $16.50/M | 100% | — | — | undefined tokens / undefined tokens |
Google google-vertex/global | $3/M | $15/M | 100.0% | — | — | undefined tokens / undefined tokens |
Amazon Bedrock amazon-bedrock/eu-west-1 | $3.30/M | $16.50/M | 100.0% | — | — | undefined tokens / undefined tokens |
Claude Platform on AWS claude-on-aws | $3/M | $15/M | 100.0% | — | — | undefined tokens / undefined tokens |
Amazon Bedrock amazon-bedrock/global | $3/M | $15/M | 100.0% | — | — | undefined tokens / undefined tokens |
Anthropic anthropic | $3/M | $15/M | 99.8% | — | — | undefined tokens / undefined tokens |
Azure azure/global | $3/M | $15/M | 98.6% | — | — | undefined tokens / undefined tokens |
Amazon Bedrock amazon-bedrock/us | $3.30/M | $16.50/M | — | — | — | undefined tokens / undefined tokens |
Pricing Comparison
Compare Claude Sonnet 4.6 API pricing across 822 providers. Prices range from $0.0030/request to $4800.00/M. Crond offers the lowest rate at $0.0030/request. 5 providers offer free API credits or a free tier.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- What benchmark data does Claude Sonnet 4.6 include?
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- What is the Claude Sonnet 4.6 API price?
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 has pricing from 827 providers, ranging from $0.0030/request to $4800.00/M. Crond has the lowest listed price.
- What does the Claude Sonnet 4.6 API pricing table include?
- The Claude Sonnet 4.6 API pricing table compares 827 providers by input price, output price, free tier status, speed, first-token latency, and recent health data when available.
- Which provider has the cheapest Claude Sonnet 4.6 API pricing?
- Crond currently has the lowest listed Claude Sonnet 4.6 price at $0.0030/request across 827 providers.
- Can I compare Claude Sonnet 4.6 API price and speed together?
- Yes. LMSpeed shows Claude Sonnet 4.6 API price, output speed, first-token latency, and provider health on the same page so you can compare cost and performance together.
- Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 API free?
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