Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 4.6

anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6

Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model yet, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work. It excels at iterative development, complex codebase navigation, end-to-end project management with...

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Data source

Only tracked on Vercel AI Gateway.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 usage over time

Vercel AI Gateway share of tokens, by day.

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Tidelines — LLM usage and market share

Claude Sonnet 4.6 holds 3.14% today, down from 10.05% at the start of the visible window.

Data: Vercel AI Gateway as of 2026-09-02 · Source: tidelines.ai/models/anthropic-claude-sonnet-4-6

Rank history

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share
Data: Vercel AI Gateway as of 2026-09-02 · Source: tidelines.ai/models/anthropic-claude-sonnet-4-6

Adoption curve vs the pantheon

Claude Sonnet 4.6's share plotted against days since first tracked, overlaid on other current leaders on the same axis. The question every new-model page asks: is this one going to make it?

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share
Data: Vercel AI Gateway as of 2026-09-02 · Source: tidelines.ai/models/anthropic-claude-sonnet-4-6

Citable stat

As of 2026-09-02, Claude Sonnet 4.6 holds 0.0% of Vercel AI Gateway token share, down 3.92pp over 30 days. Source: Tidelines (Vercel AI Gateway).

Cost per session

Median dollars spent on one Claude Sonnet 4.6 session, by coding agent and session length.

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share

Token rate sets the price; session length and reasoning set the bill.

Agent1 turn2–9 turns10–49 turns50+ turns
Claude Code$0.095$0.197$0.855$4.41
Hermes Agent$0.072$0.139$0.797$4.43
Kilo Code$0.182

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Data: OpenRouter session-cost dataset as of 2026-08-30 · Source: tidelines.ai/models/anthropic-claude-sonnet-4-6

Where to run it

Claude Sonnet 4.6 pricing by provider

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share

Per-provider pricing, context, and uptime via OpenRouter. Sorted by output price.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is served by 7 tracked endpoints on OpenRouter. The cheapest output price is $15.00 per million tokens from Claude Platform on AWS, and the most expensive is $16.50 from Google · 1000k. The largest context window offered is 1000k tokens. Prices are list rates and refresh daily.

ProviderInput $/MOutput $/MContextUptime
Claude Platform on AWS$3.00$15.001000k99.99%
Azure$3.00$15.001000k
Anthropic$3.00$15.001000k99.87%
Amazon Bedrock · 1000k$3.00$15.001000k99.99%
Google · 1000k$3.00$15.001000k100.00%
Amazon Bedrock · 1000k$3.30$16.501000k
Google · 1000k$3.30$16.501000k