Historical model (legacy). The rates below are the last recorded rates, not a recommendation for a new deployment.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 API Pricing
Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs $3.00 per 1M input tokens and $15.00 per 1M output tokens. These rates were last verified on .
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Claude Sonnet pricing history
USD · units shown per rate · all Claude models →- Input: $2.00 / 1M tokensOutput: $10.00 / 1M tokensRate first observedLatestVerified 2026-11-12
- Input: $2.00 / 1M tokensOutput: $10.00 / 1M tokensRate first observedAvailable · older versionVerified 2026-11-12
- Input: $3.00 / 1M tokensOutput: $15.00 / 1M tokensRate first observedAvailable · older versionVerified 2026-11-12
- Input: $3.00 / 1M tokensOutput: $15.00 / 1M tokensRate first observedDeprecated · 2026-11-30Verified 2026-11-12
- Input: $3.00 / 1M tokensOutput: $15.00 / 1M tokensRate first observedShut downVerified 2026-11-12
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Published rates and billing units
| Billing dimension | USD list price |
|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $3.00 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.30 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $15.00 |
| Cache write / 1M tokens | $3.75 |
| Cache write (1 hour) / 1M tokens | $6.00 |
| Batch: Input / 1M tokens | $1.50 |
| Batch: Output / 1M tokens | $7.50 |
| Batch: Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.15 |
| Batch: Cache write / 1M tokens | $1.88 |
| Batch: Cache write (1 hour) / 1M tokens | $3.00 |
Verified 2026-11-12 · Official source · Pricing methodology. Taxes, optional services and account-specific discounts are not included.
Cost examples
These examples use published list prices only. They exclude taxes, enterprise discounts, minimum charges, retries, batch discounts, and provider-specific billing rules.
1M input + 1M output
$18.00
A direct per-million comparison against every other text model.
100K input + 25K output
$0.675
A compact chat, summarization, or analysis workload.
10M input + 2M output
$60.00
A monthly production estimate for heavier RAG or agent traffic.
75% cached input + 250K output
$4.73
Cached input is about 90% cheaper than standard input at list price.
Calculator for Claude Sonnet 4.6
Enter your own input, output, and cached-token assumptions. This calculator is preloaded with only Claude Sonnet 4.6, so the result stays focused on this model.
Input cost
$3.00
Output cost
$15.00
Total
$18.00
Price history
No list-price movement across 209 daily snapshots from 2026-04-16 to 2026-11-11.
When to use Claude Sonnet 4.6
Good fit
- code generation, debugging, and agentic development work where output quality affects engineering time
- long-document and repository-scale prompts where context window matters
Be careful with
- bulk summarization or simple classification where cheaper models can pass evaluation