Using Claude Sonnet 4.6 on Anthropic

Quick Start

1. 1
   Create an account at Anthropic and generate an API key.
2. 2
   Use the Anthropic SDK or REST API to call claude-sonnet-4-6 — see the documentation for request format.
3. 3
   You'll be billed $3.00/1M input, $15.00/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

import anthropic

client = anthropic.Anthropic()  # reads ANTHROPIC_API_KEY from env
message = client.messages.create(
    model="claude-sonnet-4-6",
    max_tokens=1024,
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(message.content[0].text)

About Anthropic

Creator of Claude AI models, accessed via the Anthropic API and the Claude Platform / Console (https://platform.claude.com/; legacy console.anthropic.com redirects there). The Console hosts API keys, usage analytics, team billing, and the Workbench in-browser API testing feature.

Anthropic is a safety-focused AI research company and creator of the Claude model family, offering API access through the Anthropic Console for text generation, analysis, and coding tasks.

Pricing on Anthropic

Capabilities

About Claude Sonnet 4.6

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's best combination of speed and intelligence. Proprietary decoder-only model with 1M-token context, 64K max output, multimodal vision, extended thinking, and function calling. Available via Anthropic API, AWS Bedrock, GCP Vertex AI, and OpenRouter at $3/1M input and $15/1M output tokens.