Claude Sonnet 4.6 — pricing & specs

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a balanced model from Anthropic, at capability tier 6 of 8. Live $/M-token pricing and specs from the Mintok catalog, as of 2026-06-13.

$/M-token pricing

as of 2026-06-13 · Anthropic
Input
$3
per M tokens
Output
$15
per M tokens
Cached input
$0.30
per M tokens

What Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs in practice

At $15/M output tokens, Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the 1st-cheapest of 3 priced tier-6 models in the Mintok catalog — about 0% below the tier median of $15/M.

ScenarioEst. cost
1M input + 1M output tokens$18.00
A 10K-token request (8K in / 2K out)$0.054
1,000 agent runs (~2K in / 500 out each)$13.50
1M-token RAG chat session (900K cached in / 100K out)$1.77

Estimated from list price (as of 2026-06-13) at the token mixes shown; your real cost depends on prompt/response length and cache hit-rate. Model your own volume →

Specifications

Vendor
Anthropic
Family
Claude Sonnet
Capability tier
6 / 8
Size class
BALANCED
Category
GENERAL
Context window
1,000,000 tokens
Licensing
Proprietary

Alternatives at tier 6

Same capability tier, sorted by output price — the cheaper-capable options.

FAQ

How much does Claude Sonnet 4.6 cost per token?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens (cached input $0.30/M), via Anthropic, as of 2026-06-13.

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 expensive?

At $15/M output tokens, Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the 1st-cheapest of 3 priced tier-6 models in the Mintok catalog — about 0% below the tier median of $15/M.

What does a typical request with Claude Sonnet 4.6 cost?

At list price, a 10K-token request (8K in / 2K out) with Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs about $0.054, and 1,000 agent runs (~2K in / 500 out each) about $13.50.

What is Claude Sonnet 4.6's context window?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 supports a 1,000,000-token context window.

What capability tier is Claude Sonnet 4.6?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 sits at capability tier 6 of 8 on the Mintok scale (BALANCED size class).

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 open-source or proprietary?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a proprietary model from Anthropic, accessed via API.

Put Claude Sonnet 4.6 to work

Benchmark it on your prompts, or size a deployment and compare $/M-token against alternatives.

Pricing and specs are maintained by Mintok's catalog watchers from public sources. Not investment advice. Methodology.