Claude 4.6 Sonnet
Parameters
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Context Length
200K
Modality
Multimodal
Architecture
Dense
License
Proprietary
Release Date
1 Feb 2026
Knowledge Cutoff
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Technical Specifications
Attention Structure
Multi-Head Attention
Hidden Dimension Size
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Number of Layers
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Attention Heads
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Key-Value Heads
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Activation Function
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Normalization
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Position Embedding
Absolute Position Embedding
Claude 4.6 Sonnet
Claude 4.6 Sonnet delivers the optimal balance of intelligence, speed, and cost for enterprise applications. Features enhanced reasoning, coding capabilities, and multimodal understanding with vision support. Excels at complex tasks including data analysis, content generation, code review, and conversational AI. Offers improved accuracy and reliability over previous generations with constitutional AI safety measures.
About Claude 4.6
Anthropic's Claude 4.6 series introduces breakthrough capabilities in extended reasoning, creative collaboration, and safety. Features variants including Opus Thinking with advanced chain-of-thought processing and Sonnet for balanced performance. These models excel at complex reasoning tasks, coding, creative writing, and nuanced analysis with enhanced constitutional AI safeguards.
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Evaluation Benchmarks
Rank
#13
| Benchmark | Score | Rank |
|---|---|---|
Reasoning LiveBench Reasoning | 0.86 | 🥉 3 |
Agentic Coding LiveBench Agentic | 0.63 | ⭐ 5 |
Data Analysis LiveBench Data Analysis | 0.78 | ⭐ 6 |
Rankings
Overall Rank
#13
Coding Rank
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