claude-sonnet-4-5 vs claude-sonnet-4-6
Side-by-side comparison of claude-sonnet-4-5 and claude-sonnet-4-6: benchmarks, pricing, context window and capabilities. Both are accessible through Requesty's unified API. claude-sonnet-4-6 outperforms claude-sonnet-4-5 on 5 of 6 shared benchmarks.
claude-sonnet-4-5
Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$15.00
Context
1M
Model ID
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5
claude-sonnet-4-6
Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$15.00
Context
1M
Model ID
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
Benchmark comparison
Intelligence Indexreasoning
claude-sonnet-4-527.3%
claude-sonnet-4-638.5%
Coding Indexcoding
claude-sonnet-4-552.1%
claude-sonnet-4-663.0%
Math Indexmath
claude-sonnet-4-588.0%
claude-sonnet-4-6N/A
GPQA Diamondreasoning
claude-sonnet-4-583.4%
claude-sonnet-4-687.5%
AIME 2025math
claude-sonnet-4-588.0%
claude-sonnet-4-6N/A
LiveCodeBenchcoding
claude-sonnet-4-571.4%
claude-sonnet-4-6N/A
Terminal-Bench Hardagentic
claude-sonnet-4-535.6%
claude-sonnet-4-653.0%
τ²-Benchagentic
claude-sonnet-4-578.1%
claude-sonnet-4-675.7%
SciCodecoding
claude-sonnet-4-545.7%
claude-sonnet-4-6N/A
MMLU Proknowledge
claude-sonnet-4-587.5%
claude-sonnet-4-6N/A
Humanity's Last Examreasoning
claude-sonnet-4-517.8%
claude-sonnet-4-633.6%
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-4-5 | claude-sonnet-4-6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price / 1M | $3.00 | $3.00 |
| Output price / 1M | $15.00 | $15.00 |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1M tokens |
| Max output | 64K tokens | 128K 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-4-5 better than claude-sonnet-4-6?
claude-sonnet-4-6 outperforms claude-sonnet-4-5 on 5 of 6 shared benchmarks. See the benchmark comparison above for specifics: claude-sonnet-4-5 and claude-sonnet-4-6 have different strengths across reasoning, coding, math and multimodal tasks.
Which is cheaper, claude-sonnet-4-5 or claude-sonnet-4-6?
claude-sonnet-4-5 and claude-sonnet-4-6 have identical combined pricing.
Can I use claude-sonnet-4-5 and claude-sonnet-4-6 through the same API?
Yes. Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API that routes to both. Change just the "model" parameter to switch between "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5" and "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6", no other code changes needed.
What are the context windows?
claude-sonnet-4-5 supports up to 1M tokens of context. claude-sonnet-4-6 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.
Switch between claude-sonnet-4-5 and claude-sonnet-4-6 with one line of code
Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API for 600+ models. Change the model parameter, not your code.