Claude workhorse for coding agents, careful analysis, and production cost control
Specification
most-agreed values
Context
1M
Max output
128K
Released
2026-02-17
Knowledge cutoff
2025-08-31
Retires
—
Open weights
no
Input
text, image, pdf
Output
text
Price
US dollars per million tokens · most-agreed
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
Cache read
$0.30
Cache write
$3.75
Batch and priority prices
US dollars per million tokens · per listing
| Price | Listing | $/M |
|---|---|---|
| Cache write, 1 hour | vertex_ai-anthropic_models | $6.00 |
Available from 3 hosts
| Host | In $/M | Out $/M | Cache rd | Cache wr | Context | Output | Retires |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| google-vertex | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | 1M | 128K | — |
| google-vertex-anthropic | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | 1M | 128K | — |
| vertex_ai-anthropic_models | $3.00 | $15.00 | $0.30 | $3.75 | 1M | 64K | — |
Other listings of this model
this page is one of them
The corpus files Claude Sonnet 4.6 under several keys. This page is the claude-sonnet-4-6-default listing. The full record — every host, every price and every benchmark score — is on the main Claude Sonnet 4.6 page.
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