Head to head

Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Claude Sonnet 4.6

On a blended workload of one million input tokens and three million output tokens, Claude Sonnet 4.6 is line-ball with Claude Sonnet 4.5.

Claude Sonnet 4.5Claude Sonnet 4.6
Provider Anthropic Anthropic
Input / MTok $3 $3
Output / MTok $15 $15
Cache read / MTok $0.3 $0.3
Context window 200,000 1,000,000
Blended 1M in + 3M out $48.00 $48.00
Status ga ga

Claude Sonnet 4.5 detail   Claude Sonnet 4.6 detail