Claude Sonnet 4.6 (batch)

by Anthropic

anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6:batch
Input
$2.10/1M tokens
Output
$10.50/1M tokens
Context
1Mtokens
Max output
128Ktokens
Knows to
-
Released
17 Feb 2026

About

Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model yet, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work.

Pricing

Input$2.10per 1M prompt tokens
Output$10.50per 1M generated tokens, reasoning included
Cached input$0.21per 1M tokens read back from the prompt cache
Cache write$2.63per 1M tokens written to the prompt cache
Web search$0.014per request that uses the provider’s built-in search

What a request costs

Typical requestEachPer 1,000
Short chat reply1,500 in · 400 out$0.0073$7.35
Question over a long document40,000 in · 800 out$0.092$92.40
Agent tool step20,000 in · 1,200 out$0.055$54.60

At the developer-API rate, before any provider promotion or prompt-cache saving. In the app, the model picker shows what a message costs on your plan before you send it.

Benchmarks

Intelligence30.1#85 of 285
Coding63.0#58 of 163
Agentic31.8#48 of 127

Head-to-head rankings

  1. #12Godot gamesAgent arenaElo 122661% wins
  2. #13Android appsAgent arenaElo 121162% wins
  3. #14Full stackAgent arenaElo 121364% wins
  4. #14Mobile appsAgent arenaElo 120964% wins
  5. #16Game devAgent arenaElo 117752% wins
  6. #18ASCII artModel arenaElo 123860% wins
  7. #21Data vizModel arenaElo 127958% wins
  8. #21WebsitesModel arenaElo 128660% wins
  9. #24Web appsAgent arenaElo 118457% wins
  10. #24CodeModel arenaElo 127859% wins

Scores from Artificial Analysis; bars are scaled to the best model on our list. Rankings from Design Arena head-to-head votes. Published by OpenRouter alongside its catalogue.

Call it from code

OpenAI-compatible: point any OpenAI SDK at https://api.privateer.pro/v1 and set model. Keys are created in the app under Settings.

cURL
curl https://api.privateer.pro/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PRIVATEER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6:batch",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Hello" }],
    "reasoning": { "effort": "medium" }
  }'
Python
import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.privateer.pro/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["PRIVATEER_API_KEY"],
)
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6:batch",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)
JavaScript
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: "https://api.privateer.pro/v1",
  apiKey: process.env.PRIVATEER_API_KEY,
});
const reply = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6:batch",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(reply.choices[0].message.content);

Parameters this model accepts

include_reasoningmax_tokensreasoningreasoning_effortresponse_formatstopstructured_outputstemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_pverbosity

API reference → · How API billing works →

Prices are USD at the developer-API rate, as of 16 Oct 2026, rebuilt daily from the providers’ live catalogues. ← All models