How much does Claude Sonnet 4.6 cost per million tokens?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens at list price, and $0.3 per million cached input tokens.

What is the context window of Claude Sonnet 4.6?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 accepts up to 1,000,000 tokens of context and returns up to 128,000 output tokens.

How much do 1,000 chat messages cost with Claude Sonnet 4.6?

About $10.50, assuming 1,000 input + 500 output tokens per message.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Claude Sonnet 4.6?

In the same price range, OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol Pro ($2 / $10), OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol ($2 / $10), Z.ai GLM 5.3 Prime ($2.80 / $8.80) cost less per token. Quality differs: test on your own prompts.

Where can I buy Anthropic API credits for less?

Discount credit books resell OpenRouter usage below face value within their depth, OpenRouter adds a 5.5% card fee, and Anthropic sells its own credits at face value. The live table on this page ranks them for $100 of usage.

Anthropic · live price

Claude Sonnet 4.6 API pricing

Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model yet, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work. It excels at iterative development, complex codebase navigation, end-to-end project management with...

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Input: $3; per 1M tokens
Output: $15; per 1M tokens
Cached input: $0.3; per 1M tokens
Context: 1M; 128K max output

List price from OpenRouter, which passes Anthropic's price through without markup. Refreshed hourly. Released February 17, 2026. Model id anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6.

What Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs in practice

At list price, before any batch or caching discount.

1,000 chat messages

$10.50

1,000 input + 500 output tokens each

1,000 RAG questions

$31.50

8,000 input + 500 output tokens each

100 coding-agent steps

$12.00

30,000 input + 2,000 output tokens each, no caching

Claude Sonnet 4.6 price history

No price change since we started tracking on 2026-10-01. We record prices daily; changes will show here.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 price by host

5 hosts serve this model. Prices are the same or higher than list; the cheapest are first.

Claude Platform on AWS$3 in · $15 out · 1M ctx · 100.0% uptime 24h
Azure$3 in · $15 out · 1M ctx · 77.1% uptime 24h
Anthropic$3 in · $15 out · 1M ctx · 99.9% uptime 24h
Amazon Bedrock$3 in · $15 out · 1M ctx · 99.9% uptime 24h
Google$3 in · $15 out · 1M ctx · 100.0% uptime 24h

Where to buy Anthropic credits for less

Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs the same per token everywhere it's sold through OpenRouter. What changes is the price of the credits. Live quotes for $100 of usage:

#	Where you buy	You payYou pay for $100.00 of usage	vs list price	Price source
1	OrbioCardCheapest right now Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee and card processing, both included in the quote.	$85.10 incl. $2.60 card processing	-14.9%	live quote
2	smaaartCard Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee on face value. Card processing and taxes shown at checkout.	$95.00 + card processing and tax at checkout (not in this number)	-5.0%	live quote
3	Direct from the labCard Prepaid credits at face value (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google…). Taxes may apply.	$100.00 no top-up fee	list price	face value
4	OpenRouterCrypto 5% on crypto purchases. No markup on model prices.	$105.00 fees included	+5.0%	published fee
5	OpenRouterCard 5.5% on card purchases, $0.80 minimum. No markup on model prices.	$105.50 fees included	+5.5%	published fee

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Claude Sonnet 4.6 cost calculator

Enter your monthly tokens to price your own usage.

Model$3.00 in / $15.00 out per 1M tokens · list price, liveInput tokens / month (millions)Output tokens / month (millions)

Usage at list price$300.00/ month

Cheaper alternatives to Claude Sonnet 4.6

Other labs' models in the same price range or the one below, cheaper per token.

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol Pro	$2	$10	$4	1.1M
OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol	$2	$10	$4	1.1M
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Prime	$2.80	$8.80	$4.30	1M
OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol Pro	$2	$10	$4	1.1M
OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol	$2	$10	$4	1.1M
SpaceXAI: Grok 4.7	$2	$6	$3	500K

Other Anthropic models

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
Claude Opus 4.6	$5	$25	$10	1M
Claude Opus 4.7	$5	$25	$10	1M
Claude Opus 4.5	$5	$25	$10	200K
Claude Opus 4.8	$5	$25	$10	1M
Claude Fable 5	$10	$50	$20	1M
Claude Haiku 4.5	$1	$5	$2	200K

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