Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)

Anthropic

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Analysis of Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more.

Context

Release Date: Feb 17, 2026
Window: 1M

PricingPer 1M tokens

Input: $3
Output: $15
Blended 3:1: $6

Capabilities

Speed: 55 t/s
Input
Output
Reasoning tokens

Latency

TTFT: 99.62 ms
500 token response: 108.78 s

Benchmarks

Reasoning: ●●●○○
Coding: ●●●○○
GPQA: 87.5%
HLE: 30.0%
SciCode: 46.8%

Analysis of Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more.