Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a multimodal model from Anthropic that accepts text, images, and files, with a context window of 1,000,000 tokens and a maximum output of 128,000 tokens. It supports tool use and reasoning, though structured output support is unconfirmed in available data. The large context window makes it viable for tasks involving long documents or extended conversations that would overflow smaller windows. At $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens, this sits in the mid-to-upper pricing tier, so cost-sensitive users should weigh output volume carefully. Its blended benchmark score of 82.2 across five benchmarks is reasonable, with a notably strong coding result, moderate agentic performance, and a solid emotional reasoning score; coverage spans only five benchmarks, so performance on tasks outside those areas remains unverified. Teams prioritizing long-context document work or coding assistance will find the profile worth considering, while budget-focused teams generating heavy output may prefer a cheaper alternative.