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Claude Sonnet 4.6

Balanced

claude-sonnet-4-6

The best balance of speed and intelligence for everyday development and production workloads. Features adaptive thinking for dynamic reasoning depth. The default model for Claude Code and claude.ai.

Specifications
Context Window200K
Max Output64K
Vision
Extended Thinking
Adaptive Thinking
Tool Use
Streaming
ProviderAnthropic
Pricing
Input Price$3/MTok
Output Price$15/MTok
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Use Cases
  • Code reviews & refactoring
  • Agentic coding with Claude Code
  • Daily development tasks
  • Production API workloads