AnthropicClaude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, Low Effort)
- Released
- Feb 17, 2026
- Tracked since
- 2026-07-23
Intelligence index23.3Ranks 165 of 664 models with this metric
Coding index—Not tested
Agentic index—Not tested
Capability profile
5 axes vs. site averageClaude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, Low Effort)
Site average
Some dimensions have no data yet — marked on the chart
Pricing
per 1M tokens- Input
- $3.00
- Output
- $15.00
- Cache read
- $0.300
- Cache write
- $3.75
Performance
- Output throughput
- 45 tokens/sec
- Time to first token
- 1.51s
- First answer token
- 1.51s
- End-to-end response
- 12.69s
History
2Intelligence index
34.3→23.3
Output
Unchanged across 62 days of records
Output throughput
44→45
Cheaper at this level
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