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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Claude Sonnet 5
01Head to head
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Claude Sonnet 5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Creator | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Released | 2026-02-17 | 2026-06-30 |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | 64K | 128K |
| Input $/M | $3.00/M | — |
| Output $/M | $15.00/M | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2025-08 | 2026-01 |
| Modalities | text + image → text | text + image → text |
| Capabilities | tool-use, extended-thinking | tool-use, extended-thinking |
| Providers | Anthropic API, OpenRouter | Anthropic API |
02Benchmarks · vendor-reported unless verified
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Claude Sonnet 5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index (average pass@1) | 49.4 | — |
| BrowseComp (accuracy) | — | 84.7 |
| OSWorld-Verified (success rate) | — | 81.2 |
| SWE-Atlas Codebase QnA (pass@1) | 70.3 | — |
| SWE-Atlas Codebase QnA (score) | 31.2 | — |
| SWE-Atlas Refactoring (score) | 32.21 | — |
| SWE-Atlas Test Writing (score) | 31.76 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | 78.3% |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | 63.2% |
| SWE-bench Pro (pass@1) | 14.9 | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (resolved) | — | 85.2 |
| Terminal-Bench (success rate) | — | 80.4 |