Anthropic Proprietary Released Feb 17, 2026 Updated
Claude Sonnet 4.6
ToolsGuide Scores, rankings, test results and price.
Model summary
Summary
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's model, released Feb 17, 2026. It's ranked in 3 categories and does best at text: #40 of 416, with a ToolsGuide Score of 513 against a median of 235.
It also ranks #26 of 167 for vision (541), #74 of 147 for coding (316).
It costs $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens, about 6.9× the median text model ($0.43).
It has published results on 30 tests and has the top score on 1 of them, including mrcr-v2 (8needle_32768_65536).
Specifications
- Creator
Anthropic- Licence
- Proprietary
- Released
- Feb 17, 2026
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Input price
- $3.00 / 1M
- Output price
- $15.00 / 1M
- Tests reported
- 30
- Settings ranked
- claude-sonnet-4-6, Claude Sonnet 4.6
Model comparison
Against the ten best text models.
Text score
ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000 · Higher is better
Vision score
ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000 · Higher is better
Input price
USD per 1M input tokens · Lower is better
Leaderboards
Where Claude Sonnet 4.6 sits among the top 20 in each category.
Text
#40 of 416 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model
Vision
#26 of 167 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model
Coding
#74 of 147 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model
By task
Scored from votes on each kind of prompt alone, on the same 1,000-point scale.
Score against price
Text · the 10 priced models ranked closest · up and to the left is better value
Against its nearest rivals
Text prompts by kind · ToolsGuide Score from votes · hover for values
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Claude Sonnet 4.6 -
Muse Spark
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claude-sonnet-5.5-xhigh
Text
claude-sonnet-4-6 · hover a bar for its rank
Vision
Claude Sonnet 4.6 · hover a bar for its rank
Coding
Claude Sonnet 4.6 · hover a bar for its rank
Test results
Every test Claude Sonnet 4.6 has a published result on, out of 100%, with its rank among the models that took it.
GPQA
#30 / 256Graduate-level science questions written to be hard to look up.
89.9%
Verified
SWE-Bench Verified
#17 / 120Fixing real bugs in real GitHub projects, checked by the projects' own tests.
79.6%
Self-reported
Humanity's Last Exam
#25 / 108Humanity's Last Exam (HLE) is a multi-modal academic benchmark with 2,500 questions across mathematics, humanities, and natural sciences, designed to test LLM capabilities at the frontier of human knowledge with unambiguous, verifiable solutions
49.0%
Self-reported · In the text score· In the vision score
MMMU-Pro
#32 / 73College-level questions that need both an image and text to answer.
75.6%
Self-reported · In the vision score
BrowseComp
#30 / 68Finding hard-to-locate facts by browsing the web.
74.7%
Self-reported · In the agents score
Terminal-Bench 2.0
#23 / 54Getting real work done in a command-line terminal.
59.1%
Self-reported
MMMLU
#12 / 51Multilingual Massive Multitask Language Understanding dataset released by OpenAI, featuring professionally translated MMLU test questions across 14 languages including Arabic, Bengali, German, Spanish, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Swahili, Yoruba, and Chinese. Contains approximately 15,908 multiple-choice questions per language covering 57 subjects.
89.3%
Self-reported
DeepSWE 1.1
#49 / 50DeepSWE 1.1 evaluates software engineering agents using the mini-swe-agent harness.
30.0%
Self-reported · In the coding score
Multi-Challenge
#29 / 41MultiChallenge is a realistic multi-turn conversation evaluation benchmark that challenges frontier LLMs across four key categories: instruction retention (maintaining instructions throughout conversations), inference memory (recalling and connecting details from previous turns), reliable versioned editing (adapting to evolving instructions during collaborative editing), and self-coherence (avoiding contradictions in responses). The benchmark evaluates models on sustained, contextually complex dialogues across diverse topics including travel planning, technical documentation, and professional communication.
41.7%
Verified
LiveBench
#13 / 38LiveBench is a challenging, contamination-limited LLM benchmark that addresses test set contamination by releasing new questions monthly based on recently-released datasets, arXiv papers, news articles, and IMDb movie synopses. It comprises tasks across math, coding, reasoning, language, instruction following, and data analysis with verifiable, objective ground-truth answers.
75.5%
Self-reported · In the text score
MCP Atlas
#32 / 38MCP Atlas is a benchmark for evaluating AI models on scaled tool use capabilities, measuring how well models can coordinate and utilize multiple tools across complex multi-step tasks.
61.3%
Self-reported
Tau2 Telecom
#7 / 36τ²-Bench telecom domain evaluates conversational agents in a dual-control environment modeled as a Dec-POMDP, where both agent and user use tools in shared telecommunications troubleshooting scenarios that test coordination and communication capabilities.
97.9%
Self-reported
MRCR v2 (8-needle)
#12 / 32MRCR v2 (8-needle) is a variant of the Multi-Round Coreference Resolution benchmark that includes 8 needle items to retrieve from long contexts. This tests models' ability to simultaneously track and reason about multiple pieces of information across extended conversations.
51.2%
Verified · In the text score
Finance Agent v2
#9 / 28Finance Agent v2 is an agentic financial-analysis benchmark from Vals that evaluates models on real-world finance workflows, measuring their ability to retrieve and reason over financial documents, perform multi-step calculations, and produce accurate analyses.
51.0%
Self-reported
Tau2 Retail
#2 / 27τ²-bench retail domain evaluates conversational AI agents in customer service scenarios within a dual-control environment where both agent and user can interact with tools. Tests tool-agent-user interaction, rule adherence, and task consistency in retail customer support contexts.
91.7%
Self-reported
HealthBench Hard
#19 / 24A challenging variation of HealthBench that evaluates large language models' performance and safety in healthcare through 5,000 multi-turn conversations with particularly rigorous evaluation criteria validated by 262 physicians from 60 countries
17.7%
Verified
LongBench v2
#23 / 24LongBench v2 is a benchmark designed to assess the ability of LLMs to handle long-context problems requiring deep understanding and reasoning across real-world multitasks. It consists of 503 challenging multiple-choice questions with contexts ranging from 8k to 2M words across six major task categories: single-document QA, multi-document QA, long in-context learning, long-dialogue history understanding, code repository understanding, and long structured data understanding.
5.6%
Verified
OSWorld
#4 / 21OSWorld: The first-of-its-kind scalable, real computer environment for multimodal agents, supporting task setup, execution-based evaluation, and interactive learning across Ubuntu, Windows, and macOS with 369 computer tasks involving real web and desktop applications, OS file I/O, and multi-application workflows
72.5%
Self-reported
FACTS Grounding
#15 / 20A benchmark evaluating language models' ability to generate factually accurate and well-grounded responses based on long-form input context, comprising 1,719 examples with documents up to 32k tokens requiring detailed responses that are fully grounded in provided documents
63.6%
Verified
ARC-AGI v2
#7 / 19ARC-AGI-2 is an upgraded benchmark for measuring abstract reasoning and problem-solving abilities in AI systems through visual grid transformation tasks. It evaluates fluid intelligence via input-output grid pairs (1x1 to 30x30) using colored cells (0-9), requiring models to identify underlying transformation rules from demonstration examples and apply them to test cases. Designed to be easy for humans but challenging for AI, focusing on core cognitive abilities like spatial reasoning, pattern recognition, and compositional generalization.
58.3%
Self-reported · In the text score· In the vision score
Legal Agent Benchmark
#7 / 15The Legal Agent Benchmark (LAB) is Harvey's open-source benchmark for evaluating AI agents on complex, long-horizon legal work. Tasks are scored under an all-pass standard against expert-curated rubrics, where a task passes only if every required rubric criterion (facts, conclusions, citations, structure, and analytical moves) passes.
5.4%
Self-reported
HealthBench (hard)
#12 / 1317.7%
Unverified
GPQA (diamond)
#8 / 10Graduate-level Google-Proof Q&A benchmark with paper-aligned full and diamond subsets.
80.8%
Unverified
mrcr-v2 (8needle_32768_65536)
#1 / 1051.2%
Unverified
mrcr-v2 (8needle_4096_8192)
#4 / 1064.8%
Unverified
MultiChallenge (default)
#5 / 941.7%
Unverified
mrcr-v2 (8needle_upto_128k)
#2 / 950.8%
Unverified
Finance Agent
#2 / 8Finance Agent is a benchmark for evaluating AI models on agentic financial analysis tasks, testing their ability to process financial data, perform calculations, and generate accurate analyses across various financial domains.
63.3%
Self-reported
facts-grounding (default)
#6 / 8FACTS Grounding 1.0 — 860 public examples from Google DeepMind (CC-BY-4.0)
63.6%
Unverified
LongBench-V2 (short)
#6 / 65.6%
Unverified