Anthropic exposes Claude Sonnet 4.6 through model ID claude-sonnet-4-6. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.
Last refreshed 2026-07-26. Next refresh: weekly.
Quick Start
- 1
- 2Use the Anthropic SDK or REST API to call
claude-sonnet-4-6— see the documentation for request format. - 3
Code Examples
Install
pip install anthropicAPI key
ANTHROPIC_API_KEYModel ID
claude-sonnet-4-6Use the versioned model ID, e.g. "claude-sonnet-4-6" or "claude-opus-4-7-20251101".
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)Pricing on Anthropic
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $3.00 |
| Output tokens | $15.00 |
Capabilities
VisionMultimodalReasoningJSON / Tool useStructured OutputsCode ExecutionPrompt CachingBatch API
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.
Model Specs
Released2026-02-17
Context1m
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2025-08