AnthropicClaude Sonnet 4.6 pricing
$3.00 per 1M input tokens and $15.00 per 1M output tokens. In real work that is 2.0¢ per chat answer and 6.6¢ to summarize a 20-page PDF.
What Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs per task
Token counts estimated from a measured model of the same lab (Claude Haiku 5.5), rescaled by tokenizer. Reasoning tokens are billed as output.
| Task | Cost | Tokens used | Price rank | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Answer a chat question | 2.0¢$19.67 / 1,000 | 61 in · 1,055 out · 244 reasoning | 305 of 336 | estimated |
| Reply to a customer email | 1.1¢$10.63 / 1,000 | 362 in · 290 out · 346 reasoning | 308 of 336 | estimated |
| Write a 1,500-word blog post | 5.7¢$56.67 / 1,000 | 90 in · 3,560 out · 200 reasoning | 301 of 336 | estimated |
| Write 10 product descriptions | 6.4¢$63.54 / 1,000 | 454 in · 1,803 out · 2,342 reasoning | 311 of 336 | estimated |
| Translate 1,000 words | 3.8¢$37.79 / 1,000 | 1,832 in · 2,153 out | 285 of 336 | estimated |
| Proofread one page (500 words) | 2.1¢$21.22 / 1,000 | 987 in · 913 out · 304 reasoning | 297 of 336 | estimated |
| Summarize a 20-page PDF | 6.6¢$65.86 / 1,000 | 18,004 in · 672 out · 118 reasoning | 307 of 336 | estimated |
| Extract data from an invoice | 1.9¢$19.11 / 1,000 | 546 in · 574 out · 591 reasoning | 303 of 336 | estimated |
| Analyze a 200-row spreadsheet | ≥26¢$256 / 1,000 | 5,433 in · 566 out · 15,434 reasoning | 315 of 336 | estimated |
| Answer from 5 retrieved documents (RAG) | 4.3¢$43.29 / 1,000 | 5,184 in · 1,096 out · 753 reasoning | 310 of 336 | estimated |
| Classify 100 support tickets | 2.8¢$27.68 / 1,000 | 1,747 in · 535 out · 961 reasoning | 283 of 336 | estimated |
| Review 500 lines of code | 20¢$198 / 1,000 | 7,117 in · 3,258 out · 8,532 reasoning | 309 of 336 | estimated |
| Write a SQL query | 2.5¢$25.30 / 1,000 | 182 in · 840 out · 810 reasoning | 308 of 336 | estimated |
| Run a 50-step coding agent | $1.99$1,990 / 1,000 | 3,101,175 in · 20,790 out · 29,550 reasoning | 288 of 336 | modeled |
Price at every provider
List prices per 1M tokens (input / output) at each host serving Claude Sonnet 4.6 through OpenRouter today. Hosts can differ in quantization, context and speed.
| Provider | Input / output | Cached input | Context | Uptime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Claude Platform on AWSunknown | $3.00 / $15.00 | $0.30 | 1M | 100% |
 Azureunknown | $3.00 / $15.00 | $0.30 | 1M | |
Anthropicunknown | $3.00 / $15.00 | $0.30 | 1M | 100% |
 Amazon Bedrockunknown | $3.00 / $15.00 | $0.30 | 1M | 100% |
 Googleunknown | $3.00 / $15.00 | $0.30 | 1M | 100% |
Amazon Bedrockunknown | $3.30 / $16.50 | $0.33 | 1M | |
Amazon Bedrockunknown | $3.30 / $16.50 | $0.33 | 1M | 100% |
Googleunknown | $3.30 / $16.50 | $0.33 | 1M | |
Googleunknown | $3.30 / $16.50 | $0.33 | 1M |
Price history
First seen in our price history on Feb 19, 2026 at $3.00 input / $15.00 output. The list price has not changed since.
FAQ
How much does Claude Sonnet 4.6 cost?
Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs $3.00 per 1 million input tokens and $15.00 per 1 million output tokens, with cached input at $0.30 (list price on Oct 18, 2026). In practice one chat answer costs about 2.0¢ and summarizing a 20-page PDF about 6.6¢.
Where is Claude Sonnet 4.6 cheapest?
Among 9 providers we track, the lowest list price today is at Claude Platform on AWS: $3.00 input and $15.00 output per 1M tokens.
Does Claude Sonnet 4.6 charge for reasoning tokens?
Yes. Reasoning (thinking) tokens are billed as output tokens. That is why the cost per task can be much higher than the visible answer suggests - our task costs include them.
Is the Claude Sonnet 4.6 cost per task measured or estimated?
Estimated: Claude Sonnet 4.6 was not run directly. Tokens come from Claude Haiku 5.5 and are rescaled by the tokenizer of Anthropic. Real usage can differ.