Model board / Claude Sonnet 4.6

Verified 2026-09-03 against the pages listed below. Prices are USD per 1M tokens, list rate — no committed-use, enterprise or volume discount.

full 1M window at standard rates

read 0.1x input

Watch out

Costs 50% more than Sonnet 5 for a generation less capability — and Sonnet 5's rate is now permanent, not introductory

What we would use it for

The last model on the older tokenizer — useful if your token budgets are tuned to it

What this has cost, week by week

Output price at each refresh since 2026-07-30. A vendor change is the provider changing its price. Our correction means this board changed what it prints and the provider's charge did not move — the two are never merged, because publishing the second as the first would be a price rise that never happened.

Nothing has moved since we started tracking it.

Where these numbers came from

• https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing
• https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-caching

No number on this page was written that was not read from one of those pages on 2026-09-03. If one is wrong, send us the source URL and it is corrected in the next weekly refresh, with a changelog line saying what was wrong — contact@naderu.com.

The rest of the board

This row sits alongside 53 others on the model board, refreshed every week. The same data as JSON, and the terms for using it, are at /board-data.