Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Claude Sonnet 4.6
Prices checked
Claude Sonnet 4.6 takes 1 of 5 rounds against Claude Sonnet 4.5. Both cost $5.15 per million tokens to run.
AnthropicClaude Sonnet 4.5
200k context · tool calling · reads images
$5.15/M tokensCheapest price, at Poe · $2.32 per 1,000 pages
AnthropicWins 1 roundClaude Sonnet 4.6
1M context · tool calling · reads images
$5.15/M tokensCheapest price, at Poe · $2.32 per 1,000 pages
Maker's price in (lower wins)
$3/M
$3/M
Maker's price out (lower wins)
$15/M
$15/M
Cheapest price (lower wins)
$5.15/M at Poe
$5.15/M at Poe
Maker's price, blended (lower wins)
$6/M
$6/M
Cost per 1,000 pages (lower wins)
$2.32
$2.32
Context
200k tokens
1M tokens
Open weights
no
no
Tool calling
yes
yes
Structured output
yes
yes
Reads images
yes
yes
Reasoning
yes
yes
Released
29 Sept 2025
17 Feb 2026
Providers selling it
43
56
Price we measure against
the maker's own
the maker's own
Trains on your prompts (no is better)
not published
not published
Providers selling both · 40
Poe$5.15 / $5.15
Jiekou$5.70 / $5.70
302.AI$6 / $6
Abacus$6 / $6
Amazon Bedrock$6 / $6- Anthropic$6 / $6
Atlas Cloud$6 / $6
Azure AI Foundry$6 / $6
Claude Sonnet 4.5, then Claude Sonnet 4.6, per million tokens; the 8 cheapest of 40.
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Frequently asked
- Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Claude Sonnet 4.6?
- Neither: both run at $5.15 per million tokens, blended 3 in : 1 out, read on 31 Oct 2026.
- Where is each one cheapest?
- Claude Sonnet 4.5: $5.15 at Poe. Claude Sonnet 4.6: $5.15 at Poe.
- Can I buy both from one provider?
- Yes. 40 providers sell both: Poe, Jiekou, 302.AI, Abacus, Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, and more. The cheapest of them for the two together is Poe.
- Which holds more context?
- Claude Sonnet 4.6, at 1M tokens against 200k.
Prices exclude tax, read 31 Oct 2026 from each provider's own catalog. They are per M tokens, blended 3 in : 1 out, and a page is 600 tokens in and 60 out. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.
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