Claude Sonnet 4.6 API Pricing
Anthropic · Frontier · Proprietary · released 2026-02. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-06.
- Input: $3.00 per 1M tokens
- Output: $15.00 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (input/output): $1.50 / $7.50
- Prompt-cache read: $0.30
- Context window: 1M
- Arena ELO: 1472 (as of 2026-09-01)
- Available on: Direct API, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex, OpenRouter (curated by hand, verify with the provider)
- AWS Bedrock regions: ap-northeast-1, ap-northeast-3, ap-southeast-1, eu-central-1, eu-north-1, eu-south-1, eu-south-2, eu-west-1, eu-west-3, us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-2
Cost per request by business use case
List price vs optimized (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where the provider publishes those rates).
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Cost/req (list) | Cost/req (optimized) | Monthly @100K req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $0.012 | $0.0096 | $957 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $0.018 | $0.014 | $1.4K |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $0.048 | $0.023 | $2.3K |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $0.035 | $0.033 | $3.3K |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $0.039 | $0.035 | $3.5K |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $0.013 | $0.0062 | $621 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $0.017 | $0.0080 | $801 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $0.063 | $0.052 | $5.2K |
Claude Sonnet 4.6 pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token — the lab that made it, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent provider. One model, several sellers, and often several prices. This model is sold by 5 different hosts. The price quoted above is the one we publish so that models stay comparable; it is not necessarily the cheapest way to buy this model. List prices as published on 2026-09-06 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Platform on AWS (the price shown above) | $3.00 | $15.00 |
| Azure (the price shown above) | $3.00 | $15.00 |
| Anthropic (the price shown above) | $3.00 | $15.00 |
| Amazon Bedrock (the price shown above) | $3.00 | $15.00 |
| Google (the price shown above) | $3.00 | $15.00 |
Models comparable to Claude Sonnet 4.6
The nearest Frontier models on Arena ELO, so a substitution is compared on quality as well as price.
- Claude Opus 4.8 (Anthropic) — $5.00 in / $25.00 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1473
- Claude Opus 4.5 (Anthropic) — $5.00 in / $25.00 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1469
- GPT-5.5 (OpenAI) — $5.00 in / $30.00 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1477
- GPT-5.4 (OpenAI) — $2.50 in / $15.00 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1466
Common questions about Claude Sonnet 4.6 pricing
- How much does Claude Sonnet 4.6 cost?
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens on the API.
- Does Claude Sonnet 4.6 offer batch or cached pricing?
- Yes. Batch API pricing is $1.50/M input and $7.50/M output. Prompt-cache reads cost $0.30/M.
- What would Claude Sonnet 4.6 cost per month?
- For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs about $1.2K at list prices.
These are list prices: real cost also depends on caching, batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and existing contracts. Get a FinOps review from OptimNow or compare all models.
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