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Claude Sonnet 4.6

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Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model yet, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work. It excels at iterative development, complex c

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Claude Sonnet 4.6

Added 10 July 2026

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Overview

Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model yet, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work. It excels at iterative development, complex codebase navigation, end-to-end project management with...

How to use / API access

Call via OpenRouter with model id `anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6`.

  • openrouter · anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 Docs

OpenRouter id: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6

Benchmarks

  • Intelligence Index (artificial-analysis): 30.1 index
  • Coding Index (artificial-analysis): 63 index
  • Agentic Index (artificial-analysis): 31.8 index
  • Design Arena agenticgamedev (other): 1177 elo · #16
  • Design Arena androidnative (other): 1211 elo · #13
  • Design Arena fullstack (other): 1213 elo · #14
  • Design Arena godotgamedev (other): 1226 elo · #12

Notes

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.

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USAGE / OPENROUTER

How much Claude Sonnet 4.6 is used

Tokens processed through OpenRouter each day. It shows what developers actually run, not every company's private traffic.

Tokens, last 7 days
271B ▼10.9%
Requests, last 7 days
17.1M
Tool calls, last 7 days
3.4M
Intelligence score
30.1
People's vote
1458
Average cost per request
$3.03
Price per million tokens
$3 in · $15 out
050B100B19 Sept: 31.6B tokens, 2M requests20 Sept: 31.7B tokens, 2M requests21 Sept: 58.4B tokens, 3.8M requests22 Sept: 58.5B tokens, 3.3M requests23 Sept: 52.4B tokens, 3.1M requests24 Sept: 54.5B tokens, 3M requests25 Sept: 50.5B tokens, 2.9M requests26 Sept: 33.6B tokens, 2.3M requests27 Sept: 31.2B tokens, 2.3M requests28 Sept: 55.3B tokens, 3.5M requests29 Sept: 56.3B tokens, 3.3M requests30 Sept: 49.8B tokens, 3M requests1 Oct: 51.1B tokens, 2.9M requests2 Oct: 42.9B tokens, 2.6M requests3 Oct: 26.8B tokens, 1.8M requests4 Oct: 27.8B tokens, 1.9M requests5 Oct: 47.1B tokens, 3.2M requests6 Oct: 44.9B tokens, 2.8M requests7 Oct: 48.1B tokens, 2.6M requests8 Oct: 49.6B tokens, 2.6M requests9 Oct: 57.2B tokens, 3.7M requests10 Oct: 28.9B tokens, 1.8M requests11 Oct: 27.8B tokens, 1.8M requests12 Oct: 45.7B tokens, 2.9M requests13 Oct: 42.8B tokens, 2.6M requests14 Oct: 44.5B tokens, 2.6M requests15 Oct: 41B tokens, 2.5M requests16 Oct: 41.2B tokens, 2.9M requests17 Oct: 24.1B tokens, 1.6M requests18 Oct: 31.2B tokens, 1.9M requests19 Sept3 Oct17 Oct18 OctSee where it ranks on the leaderboard →

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