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How Much Does Claude Sonnet 4.6 Really Cost ?

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TL;DR Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens—the same price as Sonnet 4.5, while delivering near-Opus performance. With prompt caching, cache reads drop to $0.30/MTok (90% savings). Batch API cuts costs in half to $1.50/$7.50 per MTok. The 1M token con…

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  1. 2026-10-18 01:02 · DEV Community — AI
    How Much Does Claude Sonnet 4.6 Really Cost ?

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