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Claude Sonnet 4: price, performance and context

Proprietary Claude Sonnet 4 by Anthropic costs $3.00 per 1M input and $15.00 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 200K tokens in one request (≈ 600 pages of text) and scores 18.9 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 102 of 212.

Privacy: zero data retention with one provider, including in the EU. Availability over the last 24 h: 100%.

Updated Oct 09, 2026, 17:39 UTC · anthropic/claude-sonnet-4

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Key facts

Licence
Proprietary: no public weights, only through a provider API
Input / 1M tokens
$3.00
Output / 1M tokens
$15.00
Context window
200K tokens
Max. output
64K tokens
Performance index
18.9 points · rank 102 of 212
Coding index
37.6 points · rank 78 of 119
Agentic index
n/a
Cost at your usage
$6.75 / month
Knowledge cutoff
Jan 2025
In the catalog since
May 22, 2025
Capabilities
Reasoning, Vision, Tool Calling, Files

What do you get for $10.00?

Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.

TaskCost per taskFor $10.00
Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer$0.0081,200
Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out$0.0071,500
Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.017570
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.032320
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go$0.3330

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