Claude Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic best coding model and the recommended choice for most development workflows. At $3/$15 per MTok, it offers an excellent balance of capability and cost. Sonnet 4.6 powers most Claude Code sessions and excels at agentic coding, instruction following, and nuanced writing tasks.
| Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|
| LMSYS Arena | 1355 |
| Context Window | 200K |
| Price (input/output) | $3/$15 |