Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High)

By Anthropic · released 2026-02-17 (8 months) · snapshot 2026-10-24

Not ranked · benchmark data missingproprietary
Intelligence index
24.70
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)
$3.00 / $15.0
End-to-end time
12.7s
Better than…

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High) on the Pareto frontier, and what beats it?

Not ranked · benchmark data missing

Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High) does not report both selected axis metrics.

At a glance

Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High) today

Time to first answer1.02s
Output speed43 tok/s
Context window1000k
Input modalitiesText, Image
Not plotted

Incomplete benchmark data

Intelligence and benchmark cost are both required to place this model on the frontier. Missing data is not a performance verdict.

Intelligence index
24.70
Benchmark cost
Not reported
Input / 1M tokens
3.00
Output / 1M tokens
15.00
Context window
1000k

Intelligence: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Cost: total cost to run that benchmark, so reasoning tokens count. API id: claude-sonnet-4-6.

Matchup

Compare head to head

Suggested: what beats it, its effort levels, and frontier models near its price.

Release

What the Claude Sonnet 4.6 release did to the frontier on 2026-02-17

1 of 3 effort levels reached the frontier at launch (Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Max)). Impact 5.72, #6 of 46 releases this past year.

Deciding

Should you use Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High)?

Should you use Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High)?

No verdict: it does not report both intelligence and benchmark cost.

What is better and cheaper than Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High)?

Other models on the intelligence-vs-cost frontier

How much does Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High) cost?

$3.00/$15 in/out per 1M tokens, and - to run the full Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the honest all-in number for reasoning models.

Frontier membership by axis pair

Other axis pairs where Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High) is Pareto-optimal.

Y axisX axisOn the frontier
AA intelligence indexAA total cost to run (USD)no data
AA intelligence indexEnd-to-end total seconds
AA intelligence indexOutput speed tokens/sec
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