Claude Sonnet 4.6

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Anthropic's balanced model

Mid-tier model balancing capability and cost. Strong on coding and agentic tasks with 200k context.

Provider anthropic Type llm Access api Params undisclosed Context 200k License proprietary

Benchmarks (2)

BenchmarkScoreReported BySource
SWE-bench Verified79.6%vendorsource ↗
OSWorld72.5%vendorsource ↗

Why It Matters

Best cost-performance ratio for production coding workloads. 72.5% on OSWorld demonstrates strong agentic capability.

Known Limitations

Smaller context than Opus. No extended thinking mode. Proprietary.

Provider anthropic
Released 2026-02-17
Training cutoff 2025-04
Created March 22, 2026
Last reconciled Never