Claude Sonnet 4.6 pricing.
prices as of · 51 providers · 52 prices
Anthropic's mid-sized model: careful with long documents and with instructions, and the one most people mean when they say Claude.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs $3 in and $15 out per million tokens from Anthropic; the cheapest price we can explain is $20.61 at Poe, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Anthropic list price
$24/M tokens
$3 in · $15 out
read · 576% above the market median
Cheapest price we can explain
$20.61/M tokens
$2.58 in · $12.88 out · 14% under list
Poeread
What it costs for your work
Anthropic list price
$2.70a month
cheapest we can explain · Poe
$2.32a month
difference
$0.382saved
A page is about 600 tokens in and 60 out, a support reply 200 in and 300 out, an email 150 in and 250 out. Nothing else is counted: no cache discount, no batch rate, no free tier.
Every provider selling Claude Sonnet 4.6
Four groups, decided by the price and by what the provider publishes about it. Prices are per million tokens, and the share is that row against Anthropic's price.
The maker's list price
1 priceWhat the lab that trained the model charges on its own API.
AnthropicThe price Anthropic charges for the model it trained. Every row below is measured against it.
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
Cheaper, and we know why
2 pricesBelow list, with a published reason: hosting the open weights, a regional price list, credits, a stated discount.
Same price as the maker
46 pricesThe same price the maker charges, sold by someone else.
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
ModelisThe same price Anthropic charges.
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
AurikoThe same price Anthropic charges.
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
- FreeModel
The same price Anthropic charges.
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
AIHubMixThe same price Anthropic charges.
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
OrcaRouterThe same price Anthropic charges.
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
- routing.run
The same price Anthropic charges.
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
Azure Cognitive ServicesThe same price Anthropic charges.
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
DaoXEThe same price Anthropic charges.
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
CrossModelThe same price Anthropic charges.
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
FrogBotThe same price Anthropic charges.
200k context here$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
Cloudflare AI GatewayThe same price Anthropic charges.
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
GitHub CopilotThe same price Anthropic charges.
200k context here$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
Perplexity AgentThe same price Anthropic charges.
200k context here$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
OpperThe same price Anthropic charges.
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
showing the 25 cheapest of 46 · every row in the open dataset
Cheaper, and nobody says why
3 prices · never rankedBelow list on a closed model with nothing to account for it. Shown, never ranked, never a pick.
Xpersona0.30× Anthropic's list price on a closed model, and nobody says why.
200k context hereXpersona ↗$0.90 / $5.55in / out per M
0.34×of list price
$2.40 / $12in / out per M
0.80×of list price
KenariWe could not read this provider's prices reliably, so the row is listed but never ranked.
$6.30 / $31in / out per M
2.08×of list price
Frequently asked
- Who sells Claude Sonnet 4.6 cheapest?
- Poe, at $2.58 in and $12.88 out per million tokens, read on 16 Sept 2026. A consumer subscription with an API bolted on. Points convert to dollars, so the rate moves when the conversion does.
- Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 open weights?
- No. Anthropic keeps the weights, so every price on this page is Anthropic's own or a resale of it. A price below list here needs a published reason, or it is listed and never ranked.
- How much context does Claude Sonnet 4.6 hold?
- 1,000,000 tokens in one call, which is about 1M, and it can call your own functions.
- How does Claude Sonnet 4.6 compare with the rest of the market?
- At $24 per million tokens, Anthropic's price is 576% above the $3.55 median across the 337 text models we track.