Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6

Claude Sonnet 4.6 serves as a versatile, high-performance model engineered to excel in agentic coding, computer use, and long-context reasoning. As a hybrid reasoning model, it is designed to handle complex, multi-step interactions that require both logical precision and broad domain knowledge. The model is built to function as a robust assistant for professional environments, capable of navigating messy repositories, executing shell commands, and managing intricate project planning. By balancing sophisticated reasoning with practical efficiency, it provides a reliable solution for tasks that demand high-level instruction following and consistent output quality.

The model represents a significant evolution in the Sonnet lineage, incorporating advancements that allow it to perform at levels previously reserved for larger, flagship-class models. Through rigorous testing on benchmarks like SWE-bench Verified and Terminal-Bench 2.0, it demonstrates measurable improvements in its ability to ship production-ready code and interact with real-world software environments. Its design emphasizes agentic autonomy, enabling users to delegate multi-day projects or complex technical workflows to the model with confidence. With its enhanced capacity for context management and refined instruction adherence, it is well-positioned to support developers and knowledge workers who require a balance of speed, intelligence, and operational reliability.

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Provider: DigitalOcean
Model key: anthropic-claude-4.6-sonnet
Release date: Feb 17, 2026
Last updated: Mar 13, 2026
Knowledge cutoff: 2025-08-31
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Cost

Input token cost: $3.00
Output token cost: $15.00

Limits

Output tokens: 8,192 tokens
Context window: 200,000 tokens

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Compare the best AI APIs in 2026: OpenAI GPT-5.4, Anthropic Claude 4.6, Google Gemini 3.1 Pro, and xAI Grok 4.1. In-depth pricing tables, performance benchmarks, pros & cons

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Claude Sonnet 4.6, Anthropic's latest agentic coding model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. In early testing, this model excels on agentic coding,...

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benchmarks.company aggregates sourced scores for Claude Sonnet 4.6, listing a 1000K-token context window and $3/$15 per-million-token pricing. Highlights include SWE-bench Verified at 79.6% resolved, SWE-bench Pro at 58.1%, Terminal-Bench 2.0 at 59.1%, and Terminal-Bench 2.1 at 67% tasks resolved. Reasoning and knowledge results show tau-bench at 97.9% pass, GPQA Diamond at 89.9% accuracy, Humanity's Last Exam at 34.6%, AIME 2025 at 95.6% solved, and MMLU-Pro at 79.1% accuracy. The page labels most entries developer-reported and timestamps scores to February and June 2026 for traceability.

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Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 4.6 on February 17, 2026, describing it as a full upgrade across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design. The model ships with a 1M-token context window in beta and is the new default in Claude.ai and Claude Cowork for free and Pro users. Pricing matches Sonnet 4.5 at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, and Anthropic reports early-access developers often preferred Sonnet 4.6 over the November 2025 Opus 4.5 on real coding tasks. Safety evaluations concluded the model shows broadly warm, honest behavior with strong safety practices and no major misalignment concerns.

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Sonnet 4.6 from Anthropic is now available on DigitalOcean via Gradient™ AI Serverless Inference. Get security-hardened defaults, predictable usage-based