workhorseAnthropic·Released 2025-09
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic's mainstream workhorse — the default for Claude.ai, API workloads, and Claude Code day-to-day.
Pricing verified May 7, 2026 · source
Key specifications
| Vendor | Anthropic |
| Tier | workhorse |
| Context window | 1M tokens |
| Pricing | $3 / $15 per 1M tokens (input/output) |
| Released | 2025-09 |
| Categories | Text GenerationAdvanced ReasoningCode GenerationMultimodalEnterprise |
Key features
- •Balanced speed, cost, and capability
- •Default model for most Claude Code workflows
- •Strong coding and tool-use performance
- •Vision input support
- •Prompt caching for large context reuse