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Key capabilities

About this model

Key model capabilities

• Image & text input: With strong vision capabilities, Claude Sonnet 4.6 can process images and return text outputs to analyze and understand charts, graphs, technical diagrams, reports, and other visual assets.
• Computer use: Sonnet 4.6 delivers confident, consistent navigation with more human-like browsing, enabling developers to direct Claude to use computers the way people do.
• Advanced tool use: Build agents that can take action with the tool search tool, programmatic tool calling, and tool use examples.
• Adaptive thinking: Adaptive thinking is an upgrade to extended thinking that gives Claude the freedom to think as much or as little as needed depending on the task and effort level.

Use cases

Key use cases

• Agents: Sonnet 4.6 excels at complex, multi-step tasks requiring sustained reasoning and adaptive decision-making—ideal for workflows where reliability and autonomy matter most.
• Coding: Sonnet 4.6 is built for iterative development work, handling complex codebases without losing quality as you guide it through building, refactoring, and debugging. It can compress multi-day projects into hours with the technical depth to deliver production-ready solutions.
• Enterprise workflows: Sonnet 4.6 powers agents that manage professional projects from start to finish, leveraging memory to maintain context across files with a step-change improvement in creating spreadsheets, slides, and docs.
• Financial analysis: Sonnet 4.6 connects the dots across regulatory filings, market reports, and internal data—enabling sophisticated modeling and proactive compliance.
• Cybersecurity: Sonnet 4.6 brings professional-grade analysis to security workflows, correlating logs, vulnerability databases, and threat intelligence for proactive threat detection and automated incident response.
• Computer use: Sonnet 4.6 delivers confident, consistent navigation with more human-like browsing—enabling better web QA, workflow automation, and advanced user experiences.

Out of scope use cases

Pricing

Technical specs

Training cut-off date

Input formats

Supported language

Supported Azure regions

Sample JSON response

Input

{
  "model": "claude-sonnet-4-6",
  "max_tokens": 1024,
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Hi, who are you?"
    }
  ]
}

Output

200: {
  "content": [
    {
      "text": "Hi! My name is Claude.",
      "type": "text"
    }
  ],
  "id": "msg_01XFDUDYJgAACzvnptvVoYEL",
  "model": "claude-sonnet-4-6",
  "role": "assistant",
  "stop_reason": "end_turn",
  "stop_sequence": null,
  "type": "message",
  "usage": {
    "input_tokens": 31,
    "cache_creation_input_tokens": 0,
    "cache_read_input_tokens": 0,
    "cache_creation": {
      "ephemeral_5m_input_tokens": 0,
      "ephemeral_1h_input_tokens": 0
    },
    "output_tokens": 25,
    "service_tier": "standard"
  }
}

4XX: {
  "error": {
    "message": "Invalid request",
    "type": "invalid_request_error"
  },
  "request_id": "",
  "type": "error"
}

Model architecture

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Additional assets

• Claude Documentation : Visit Claude documentation for a wealth of resources on model capabilities, prompting techniques, use case guidelines, and more.
• Adaptive Thinking Guide : Understand how best to use extended thinking with Claude.
• Claude Prompting Resources : Check out Anthropic's prompting tools and guides to learn how to craft prompts that elicit more helpful, nuanced responses.
• Claude Cookbooks : Check out example code for a variety of complex tasks, such as RAG from various web sources, making SQL queries, function calling, multimodal prompting, and more.

Distribution channels

• Claude API: For developers interested in building agents, Claude Sonnet 4.6 is available on the Claude Developer Platform.
• Claude Code: Use Claude Sonnet 4.6 with Anthropic's industry-leading coding agent, Claude Code.

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