claude-sonnet-4-6 vs claude-sonnet-4-5
Side-by-side comparison of claude-sonnet-4-6 and claude-sonnet-4-5— benchmarks, pricing, context window and capabilities. Both are accessible through Requesty's unified API.
claude-sonnet-4-6
Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$15.00
Context
1M
Model ID
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
claude-sonnet-4-5
Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$15.00
Context
1M
Model ID
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5
Benchmark comparison
Intelligence Indexreasoning
claude-sonnet-4-651.7%
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Coding Indexcoding
claude-sonnet-4-650.9%
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GPQA Diamondreasoning
claude-sonnet-4-687.5%
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Terminal-Bench Hardagentic
claude-sonnet-4-653.0%
claude-sonnet-4-5—
τ²-Benchagentic
claude-sonnet-4-675.7%
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SciCodecoding
claude-sonnet-4-646.8%
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Humanity's Last Examreasoning
claude-sonnet-4-630.0%
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Scores sourced from official model cards, Artificial Analysis, and public leaderboards. Benchmarks measure specific skills and don't capture every aspect of model quality.
Pricing & specifications
| claude-sonnet-4-6 | claude-sonnet-4-5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price / 1M | $3.00 | $3.00 |
| Output price / 1M | $15.00 | $15.00 |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1M tokens |
| Max output | 64K tokens | 64K tokens |
| Vision input | Yes | Yes |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Prompt caching | Yes | Yes |
| Computer use | Yes | Yes |
| Provider | Anthropic PBC | Anthropic PBC |
Questions people ask
Is claude-sonnet-4-6 better than claude-sonnet-4-5?
Benchmark data is limited for one or both models. Compare pricing and capabilities in the tables above, and test both on your own workload.
Which is cheaper — claude-sonnet-4-6 or claude-sonnet-4-5?
claude-sonnet-4-6 and claude-sonnet-4-5 have identical combined pricing.
Can I use claude-sonnet-4-6 and claude-sonnet-4-5 through the same API?
Yes. Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API that routes to both. Change just the "model" parameter to switch — "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6" or "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5" — no other code changes needed.
What are the context windows?
claude-sonnet-4-6 supports up to 1M tokens of context. claude-sonnet-4-5 supports up to 1M tokens. Longer context means you can feed larger documents or codebases in a single prompt, though quality often degrades past 128K for most models.
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