Quick Start
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- 2Use the Microsoft Foundry SDK or REST API to call
claude-sonnet-4-6— see the documentation for request format. - 3
Code Examples
About Microsoft Foundry
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Pricing on Microsoft Foundry
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $3.00 |
| Output tokens | $15.00 |
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.