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Claude Sonnet 4.6 benchmarks, ranks and price

Where Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL place Claude Sonnet 4.6, what it costs through OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway, and the models either side of it on the consensus.

Updated Oct 1, 2026Full leaderboard Sources and method

Read Oct 1, 2026

#26of 85

on the LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 60 across 3 leaderboards.

Source: Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL, combined by Rank.ai.

By leaderboard

Where each leaderboard places Claude Sonnet 4.6

Artificial Analysis

#17of 51

Score 30.1. Best run: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6.

Intelligence Index: a composite of reasoning, knowledge, maths and coding evaluations.

LiveBench

#20of 34

Score 73.0. Best run: Claude Sonnet 4.6 Thinking Medium Effort.

Contamination-limited questions refreshed each release: reasoning, maths, coding, data analysis, language.

LMArena

#16of 79

Score 1473. Best run: claude-sonnet-4-6.

Blind head-to-head human votes, style controlled.

Berkeley BFCL

Not measured by Berkeley BFCL.

Function calling and tool use, single turn to multi turn and web search.

Price and context

$6.00

OpenRouter: $3.00 in, $15 out. Vercel AI Gateway: $3.00 in, $15 out Context window 1M tokens. LiveBench cost per solved task $0.306.

Nearby

The models either side of Claude Sonnet 4.6

Questions about Claude Sonnet 4.6

How good is Claude Sonnet 4.6?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 ranks #26 of 85 models on the Rank.ai LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 60 out of 100 across 3 leaderboards.

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 better than Qwen3.7 Max?

Not on the consensus: Qwen3.7 Max scores 61 to Claude Sonnet 4.6's 60. Compare them source by source below, since the leaderboards test different things.

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 better than GPT 5.2 (2025-12-11) High?

On the consensus, yes: 60 to 59.

How much does Claude Sonnet 4.6 cost?

$3.00 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens on OpenRouter, the cheaper listing we read. Blended at three input tokens to one output, that is $6.00 per million.

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 good for coding?

It scores 63.0 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Index, placing it #17 for coding among the models on this leaderboard.

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