Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 provider comparison

anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6

Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model yet, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work. It excels at iterative development, complex codebase navigation, end-to-end project management with...

Endpoints:: 8
Context:: 1M
Input:: text, image, file
Output:: text

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At a glance

Comparison winners

Based on 1,000 input and 500 output tokens using the latest published median speed data.

Best cost/speed trade-off

Amazon Bedrockamazon-bedrock/global

$7 / 1M tokens

11.13 s estimated response

Cheapest

Anthropicanthropic/2

$7 / 1M tokens

$0.0105 for the sample request

Fastest

Google Vertexgoogle-vertex/us-east5

10.53 s estimated response

$7.7 / 1M tokens

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Price and performance charts

Compare published endpoint pricing and estimated response time visually.

Effective price by endpoint

USD per 1 million tokens for input and output. Lower is better.

Anthropic has the lowest estimated cost for 1,000 input and 500 output tokens at $0.0105.

Estimated cost vs. response time

Based on 1,000 input and 500 output tokens. Cost is shown in USD per 1 million tokens. Lower and further left is better; the single best cost/speed trade-off appears at full opacity.

7 providers have complete pricing and speed data. Amazon Bedrock is closest to the ideal combination of lowest cost and fastest response.

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Provider endpoints

Prompt and completion prices are effective USD per token as published by OpenRouter. Missing speed data never removes an endpoint.

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Endpoint comparison for Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
Provider / route	Current pricing ↗	Speed measurements	Endpoint details
Provider / route Anthropic`anthropic/2` Cheapest	Current pricing Input price $3 / 1M tokens Output price $15 / 1M tokens Sample cost $0.0105	Speed measurements 500-token response 13.98 s Response starts 1.16 s Output speed 39.0 tok/s	Endpoint details Uptime (30 min) 99.98% Context 1M Model format unknown Max output 128K 12 parameters include_reasoning, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_p, verbosity
Provider / route Azure`azure/us-east-2`	Current pricing Input price $3 / 1M tokens Output price $15 / 1M tokens Sample cost $0.0105	Speed measurements 500-token response 81.43 s Response starts 18.93 s Output speed 8.0 tok/s	Endpoint details Uptime (30 min) Insufficient recent data Context 1M Model format unknown Max output 128K 14 parameters include_reasoning, max_completion_tokens, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_k, top_p, verbosity
Provider / route Google Vertex`google-vertex/global`	Current pricing Input price $3 / 1M tokens Output price $15 / 1M tokens Sample cost $0.0105	Speed measurements 500-token response 11.60 s Response starts 1.40 s Output speed 49.0 tok/s	Endpoint details Uptime (30 min) 100.00% Context 1M Model format unknown Max output 128K 11 parameters include_reasoning, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_p, verbosity
Provider / route Anthropic`anthropic`	Current pricing Input price $3 / 1M tokens Output price $15 / 1M tokens Sample cost $0.0105	Speed measurements 500-token response 14.92 s Response starts 1.03 s Output speed 36.0 tok/s	Endpoint details Uptime (30 min) Insufficient recent data Context 1M Model format unknown Max output 128K 12 parameters include_reasoning, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_p, verbosity
Provider / route Amazon Bedrock`amazon-bedrock/global` Best cost/speed trade-off	Current pricing Input price $3 / 1M tokens Output price $15 / 1M tokens Sample cost $0.0105	Speed measurements 500-token response 11.13 s Response starts 0.93 s Output speed 49.0 tok/s	Endpoint details Uptime (30 min) 99.98% Context 1M Model format unknown Max output 128K 13 parameters include_reasoning, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_k, top_p, verbosity
Provider / route Google Vertex`google-vertex/europe`	Current pricing Input price $3.3 / 1M tokens Output price $16.5 / 1M tokens Sample cost $0.01155	Speed measurements 500-token response 19.25 s Response starts 1.39 s Output speed 28.0 tok/s	Endpoint details Uptime (30 min) 100.00% Context 1M Model format unknown Max output 128K 11 parameters include_reasoning, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_p, verbosity
Provider / route Google Vertex`google-vertex/us-east5` Fastest	Current pricing Input price $3.3 / 1M tokens Output price $16.5 / 1M tokens Sample cost $0.01155	Speed measurements 500-token response 10.53 s Response starts 1.44 s Output speed 55.0 tok/s	Endpoint details Uptime (30 min) Insufficient recent data Context 1M Model format unknown Max output 128K 11 parameters include_reasoning, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_p, verbosity
Provider / route Amazon Bedrock`amazon-bedrock/eu-west-1`	Current pricing Input price $3.3 / 1M tokens Output price $16.5 / 1M tokens Sample cost $0.01155	Speed measurements 500-token response Insufficient recent data Response starts Insufficient recent data Output speed Insufficient recent data	Endpoint details Uptime (30 min) Insufficient recent data Context 1M Model format unknown Max output 128K 13 parameters include_reasoning, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_k, top_p, verbosity

Endpoint data fetched Jul 15, 2026, 11:25 PM UTC.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 deployment guide

How to choose a Claude Sonnet 4.6 inference provider

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is indexed here as a text model by Anthropic, with 8 provider endpoints from Anthropic, Azure, Google Vertex, Amazon Bedrock. The comparison preserves each exact OpenRouter routing tag so pricing and performance observations can be connected to the route an application would actually request.

Match the endpoint to the workload

The model publishes a 1M-token context window. It accepts text, image, file input and returns text output. 14 distinct supported parameters appear across the listed routes. Confirm limits on the specific endpoint rather than assuming every host exposes the same configuration.

Compare the real request economics

Anthropic currently has the lowest estimated cost for the standard 1,000-input/500-output-token sample at $0.0105. Input-heavy and output-heavy applications can produce a different result, so review both per-million-token prices in the endpoint table.

Balance response start and generation speed

Google Vertex currently has the shortest estimated 500-token response at 10.53 seconds. Amazon Bedrock is the single endpoint closest to the current ideal cost/speed combination. Recent observations can change, so validate finalists with your own prompts.