Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic
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Anthropic
Normal use: ~654 chats at published API rates.
PickAI Conversation Value measures buying power at published API rates using the shared standard conversation basket.
Standout feature
04 - Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic)
Best price-to-quality ratio in the Claude family - approaches Opus performance at 40% less cost Highest real-world knowledge work score of any model including Opus (GDPval-AA 1,633 Elo) 89% math accuracy - a 27-point jump over its predecessor, strong for data and financial tasks Default model on Claude.ai - the most tested and production-hardened Anthropic model Prompt caching support reduces costs 30-50% for repeated document workflows
PickAI benchmark
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PickAI conversation value
~654 chats
Usage intensity
One normal prompt, one full reply, and a couple of follow-up turns.
Selected tier
Claude Pro
PickAI Conversation Value
~654 chats
Standard basket
3K tokens/chat
Normal use: ~654 chats at published API rates.
This estimate uses the shared normal conversation basket: 1,200 input tokens and 1,800 output tokens, or 3k tokens total. Standard conversation cost = (input tokens × API input price + output tokens × API output price) / 1,000,000.
API pricing basis: $3 / 1M input, $15 / 1M output
PickAI Conversation Value measures buying power at published API rates using the shared standard conversation basket.
| Tier | Monthly price | PickAI Conversation Value | Standard basket | Rate note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Free Free tier | $0 | Free tier | 3,000 tokens | Free access exists, but the vendor does not publish a fixed monthly token allowance for this hosted tier and practical limits vary by workload. |
Claude ProPrimary Usage limits not disclosed | $20 | ~654 chats | 3,000 tokens | Usage limits vary by workload and should be checked against the vendor current plan controls. |
Consumer access
Consumer plan pricing is grounded in the current official vendor plan page.
Hosted app availability is grounded in the current official vendor surface.
What it feels like
Official ecosystem
These are the verified first-party tools or official product surfaces currently listed for Claude Sonnet 4.6. If there is no verified specialized tool beyond a general chat surface, this section stays minimal.
Only verified first-party surfaces are listed.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's everyday AI model, released in February 2026, and the default for all free and standard subscribers. It approaches Opus-level intelligence at a price point that makes it practical for far more tasks Anthropic - making it the best value option in the Claude lineup. It handles writing, research, document analysis, and everyday questions with impressive accuracy and speed. It can hold entire codebases, lengthy contracts, or dozens of research papers in a single session Eesel AI, and reasons effectively across all of it. Early users report near human-level capability in tasks like navigating complex spreadsheets or filling out multi-step web forms. Anthropic Best suited for users who want a fast, reliable, and highly capable AI assistant for daily personal or professional use without needing the deepest reasoning that Opus offers
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| Benchmark | Metric | Axis | Weight | Contribution | Score | Source | Retrieved |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Humanity's Last Exam default/thinking (no tools) | Normalized quality input | VALUEQUALITY | VALUE: 40% [SMARTNESS] QUALITY: 83.3% active / 50% base [REASONING] | Contributes 9.4 pts to Value score Contributes 39.6 pts to Quality score | 33.2% | Official vendor benchmark page Replaces the prior underreported HLE row. | 2026-04-19 |
GPQA Diamond GPQA Diamond | Graduate-level science QA |
Reference only |
Not used in Quality or Value scoring. |
Informational evidence only. |
| 89.9% |
| Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 model card Official accepted GPQA Diamond value. Do not carry forward the stale 74.1% row. |
| 2026-06-08 |
ARC-AGI-2 ARC-AGI-2 public leaderboard | Novel pattern reasoning | Reference only | Not used in Quality or Value scoring. | Informational evidence only. | 58.3% | ARC Prize leaderboard ARC-AGI-2 is shown as supplementary evidence only and is not currently included in the PickAI Quality Score. | 2026-03-26 |
MRCR v2 Live source acquisition | 128k retrieval | Reference only | Not used in Quality or Value scoring. | Informational evidence only. | 84.9% | Google DeepMind Gemini 3.1 Pro comparison table Vendor-published cross-model comparison table. Treat this as current official evidence, not neutral third-party benchmarking. | 2026-03-26 |
MRCR v2 Live source acquisition | 1M retrieval | Reference only | Not used in Quality or Value scoring. | Informational evidence only. | Not supported | Google DeepMind Gemini 3.1 Pro comparison table Vendor-published cross-model comparison table. Treat this as current official evidence, not neutral third-party benchmarking. | 2026-03-26 |