Anthropic Operational
Claude Sonnet 4.6 — pricing & price history
Bottom line: Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs $3 per 1M input tokens and $15 per 1M output tokens on Anthropic, with a 1M-token context window.
API model id: claude-sonnet-4-6 · Verified against the provider's pricing page as of 2026-06-22.
Input / 1M tokens
$3
Output / 1M tokens
$15
Context window
1M
Provider status
Operational
Price history
| Date | Input /1M | Output /1M |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-20 | $3 | $15 |
| 2026-08-19 | $3 | $15 |
| 2026-08-18 | $3 | $15 |
| 2026-08-17 | $3 | $15 |
| 2026-08-16 | $3 | $15 |
| 2026-08-15 | $3 | $15 |
| 2026-08-14 | $3 | $15 |
| 2026-08-13 | $3 | $15 |
| 2026-08-12 | $3 | $15 |
| 2026-08-11 | $3 | $15 |
| 2026-08-10 | $3 | $15 |
| 2026-08-09 | $3 | $15 |
Cheaper alternatives with similar context
| Model | Provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | DeepSeek | $0.14 | $0.28 | 1M |
| GPT-4.1 nano | OpenAI | $0.1 | $0.4 | 1M |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Google Gemini | $0.1 | $0.4 | 1.048576M |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | DeepSeek | $0.44 | $0.87 | 1M |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite | Google Gemini | $0.25 | $1.5 | 1.048576M |
| GPT-4.1 mini | OpenAI | $0.4 | $1.6 | 1M |
Routing agents: call price_history("anthropic--claude-sonnet-4-6") or cheapest_model(min_context=1000000) over our MCP/x402 API to use this programmatically. Docs →