One of three orchestrator model options in Perplexity Computer. The creator uses it in OpenClaw too, calls it a beast and notes it is far cheaper, and used it for the calendar demo.
Anthropic's mid-tier Claude model, used as a general-purpose workhorse for coding, agents and knowledge work.
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Claude Sonnet 4.6 at a glance
- What is Claude Sonnet 4.6?
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a model from Anthropic. Anthropic's mid-tier Claude model, used as a general-purpose workhorse for coding, agents and knowledge work.
- Who makes Claude Sonnet 4.6?
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 is made by Anthropic.
- Does Claude Sonnet 4.6 work in the EU?
- Available in the EU. No EU-specific page was provided for this model; Claude and the Anthropic API are generally offered in EU/EEA countries, and Claude models are also available through EU regions of major cloud providers. Last verified 14 Nov 2026.
- How much does Claude Sonnet 4.6 cost?
- API pricing. Creator-reported API price of about $15 per million output tokens; also available through Claude subscription plans. Check Anthropic's pricing page for current rates. Licence: Proprietary.
- Where was Claude Sonnet 4.6 shown?
- In 3 creator videos by Matthew Berman. Most recently by Matthew Berman on 6 Jun 2026, at 5:28 in “Perplexity Just Built an AI That Does Everything”.
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Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a large language model from Anthropic, positioned in the Claude lineup as a mid-tier model between the smaller Haiku and larger Opus models. The provided Anthropic homepage does not describe this version directly; it now highlights newer releases (Sonnet 5.5, Opus 5.5, Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2), so Sonnet 4.6 is an earlier-generation model.
According to YouTube creators, it is used as one of the orchestrator model options in Perplexity Computer and in OpenClaw, and is described as a workhorse model suitable for most use cases. Its price was cited at $15 per million output tokens, which one creator called still quite expensive. On the DeepSWE coding benchmark leaderboard it was reported to rank well below Opus 4.7.
It is accessed through Anthropic's Claude apps and API, and through third-party products that embed it. Detailed specifications such as context window, exact release date and input pricing are not given in the provided material.
- Mid-tier Claude model aimed at general-purpose work
- Used for agentic and orchestration tasks in third-party tools such as Perplexity Computer and OpenClaw
- Reported output price of $15 per million tokens
- Ranks below Opus 4.7 on the DeepSWE coding benchmark
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Described as a workhorse model at $15 per million output tokens, still quite expensive but suitable for most use cases.
Ranks far down the DeepSWE leaderboard, well below Opus 4.7.
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