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Claude Sonnet 4.6 token cost

Anthropic · context 1,000,000 tokens · tokenizer Approx

When to use Claude Sonnet 4.6

Previous Sonnet generation still useful for stable production prompts. Compare against Sonnet 5 on your real traffic mix before migrating.

Pricing

Input
$3.00/1M
Output
$15.00/1M
Cached input
$0.300/1M
Batch input
$1.50/1M
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