Claude Sonnet 4.6 Just got released!
**Claude Sonnet 4.6 Is Here — Opus-Level Performance at a Lower Cost**
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet model yet, and it's closing the gap with Opus 4.6 across coding, agentic tasks, computer use, and more — at a significantly lower price point of $3 input / $15 output per million tokens with a 1M token context window.
In this video we cover everything you need to know about Sonnet 4.6 and see it in action.
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**What's covered:**
- How Sonnet 4.6 compares to Opus 4.6 and GPT-4.6 on benchmarks
- Real-world use cases: computer use, browser control, web design, PowerPoint, and Excel automation
- Built-in tools: code execution, memory, web search, and web fetch
- Adaptive thinking, extended thinking, and context compaction explained
- Availability in Windsurf, Cursor, and other code editors
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**Timestamps:**
- 0:00 — Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6 & benchmark overview
- 0:57 — Computer use capabilities and complex task handling
- 1:19 — How Sonnet 4.6 compares to GPT-4.5 and the cost-performance leaderboard
- 1:56 — API access, Excel & PowerPoint automation
- 2:11 — Built-in tools: code execution, memory, web search & fetch
- 2:42 — Adaptive thinking, extended thinking & context compaction
- 2:54 — Availability in Windsurf, Cursor & other editors
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📌 Also watch my Claude Opus 4.6 video for a full side-by-side comparison.
👇 Drop a comment below — are you switching to Sonnet 4.6?