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title: Claude Sonnet 4.6
url: https://platform.claude.com/docs/de/models/sonnet-4-6/overview
description: "Referenz zu Claude Sonnet 4.6: Lebenszyklusstatus, Modell-IDs auf jeder Plattform, Kontextfenster, Ausgabelimits, Preise und Migrationsressourcen. Claude Sonnet 4.6 ist ein veraltetes Modell; Claude Sonnet 5.5 ist das aktuelle Sonnet-Modell."
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**Legacy.** Released February 17, 2026.
Although Claude Sonnet 4.6 is still available, you should consider migrating to Claude Sonnet 5.5. [See Claude Sonnet 5.5](https://platform.claude.com/docs/de/models/sonnet-5-5/overview) · [Migrate to Claude Sonnet 5.5](https://platform.claude.com/docs/de/models/sonnet-5-5/migration-guide#migrating-from-claude-sonnet-4-6)
Model ID: `claude-sonnet-4-6`
Context window: 1M tokens · Max output: 128K tokens · Input pricing: $3 / MTok · Output pricing: $15 / MTok
[Announcement](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6)
## Wie es im Vergleich zur aktuellen Modellreihe abschneidet
| Model | Context | Max output | Price / MTok | Thinking | Default effort | Knowledge cutoff |
| :---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :------ | :--------- | :----------------- | :----------------------------- | :------------- | :--------------- |
| [Claude Fable 5.1](https://platform.claude.com/docs/de/models/fable-5-1/overview) | 1M | 128K | $10 / $50 | Adaptive (always on) | `high` | Jun 2026 |
| [Claude Opus 5.5](https://platform.claude.com/docs/de/models/opus-5-5/overview) | 1M | 128K | $4 / $20 | Adaptive (always on) | `medium` | Jun 2026 |
| [Claude Sonnet 5.5](https://platform.claude.com/docs/de/models/sonnet-5-5/overview) | 1M | 128K | $2 / $10 | Adaptive | `high` | Jun 2026 |
| **Claude Sonnet 4.6** (this model) | 1M | 128K | $3 / $15 | Adaptive (extended deprecated) | `high` | Aug 2025 |
| [Claude Haiku 5.5](https://platform.claude.com/docs/de/models/haiku-5-5/overview) | 1M | 128K | From $0.10 / $0.50 | Adaptive | `medium` | Jun 2026 |
* **Context:** 1M tokens is roughly 555k words or 2.5M Unicode characters on the current tokenizer (introduced with Claude Opus 4.7); models before it fit about 750k words in 1M tokens. 200k tokens is roughly 150k words.
* **Max output:** Synchronous Messages API limit. On the Message Batches API, Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5, Claude Haiku 5.5, Claude Opus 4.8, Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Opus 4.6, and Claude Sonnet 4.6 support up to 300k output tokens with the output-300k-2026-03-24 beta header.
* **Price / MTok:** Input / output, base price per million tokens. Batch API requests are 50% off; prompt caching reads cost 10% of the base input price (2.5% on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, 5% on Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5). See Pricing for the full list.
* **Thinking:** Adaptive thinking lets the model decide how much to think, steered by effort. Extended thinking is the manual budget\_tokens mode on earlier models.
* **Default effort:** The effort parameter’s default on the Claude API. Models without a value don’t support the parameter.
* **Knowledge cutoff:** Reliable knowledge cutoff: the date through which the model’s knowledge is most extensive and reliable.
## Spezifikationen
### Model IDs
| Platform | Model ID |
| :-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :---------------------------- |
| Claude API | `claude-sonnet-4-6` |
| [Amazon Bedrock (InvokeModel)](https://platform.claude.com/docs/de/build-with-claude/claude-on-amazon-bedrock-legacy) | `anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6` |
| [Google Cloud](https://platform.claude.com/docs/de/build-with-claude/claude-on-vertex-ai) | `claude-sonnet-4-6` |
| [Microsoft Foundry](https://platform.claude.com/docs/de/build-with-claude/claude-in-microsoft-foundry) | `claude-sonnet-4-6` |
| [Claude Platform on AWS](https://platform.claude.com/docs/de/build-with-claude/claude-platform-on-aws) | `claude-sonnet-4-6` |
### Pricing
| Feature | Value |
| :------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :------------------------------- |
| Input | $3 / MTok |
| Output | $15 / MTok |
| [5m cache write](https://platform.claude.com/docs/de/build-with-claude/prompt-caching) | $3.75 / MTok |
| [1h cache write](https://platform.claude.com/docs/de/build-with-claude/prompt-caching) | $6 / MTok |
| [Cache read](https://platform.claude.com/docs/de/build-with-claude/prompt-caching) | $0.30 / MTok |
| [Batch API](https://platform.claude.com/docs/de/build-with-claude/batch-processing) | 50% discount on input and output |
[Full price list](https://platform.claude.com/docs/de/about-claude/pricing)
### Capabilities
| Feature | Value |
| :-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :----------------------------- |
| [Context window](https://platform.claude.com/docs/de/build-with-claude/context-windows) | 1M tokens |
| Max output | 128K tokens |
| [Max output (Batch API, beta)](https://platform.claude.com/docs/de/build-with-claude/batch-processing#extended-output-beta) | 300K tokens |
| [Thinking](https://platform.claude.com/docs/de/build-with-claude/thinking) | Adaptive (extended deprecated) |
| [Default effort](https://platform.claude.com/docs/de/build-with-claude/effort) | `high` |
| Input → output | Text and images → text |
| Reliable knowledge cutoff | Aug 2025 |
| Training data cutoff | Jan 2026 |
### Availability
| Feature | Value |
| :---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [Status](https://platform.claude.com/docs/de/about-claude/model-deprecations) | Active (legacy) |
| Released | February 17, 2026 |
| Retirement | Not sooner than February 17, 2027 |
| Platforms | Claude API, [Amazon Bedrock (InvokeModel)](https://platform.claude.com/docs/de/build-with-claude/claude-on-amazon-bedrock-legacy), [Google Cloud](https://platform.claude.com/docs/de/build-with-claude/claude-on-vertex-ai), [Microsoft Foundry](https://platform.claude.com/docs/de/build-with-claude/claude-in-microsoft-foundry), [Claude Platform on AWS](https://platform.claude.com/docs/de/build-with-claude/claude-platform-on-aws) |
## Ressourcen
Was sich beim Wechsel von Claude Sonnet 4.6 zu Claude Sonnet 5.5 ändert.
Das aktuelle Sonnet-Modell: Überblick, Spezifikationen und Ressourcen.
## Referenz
Der System-Prompt, den Claude Sonnet 4.6 auf claude.ai und in den Claude-Apps verwendet.
Sicherheitsbewertungen und Bereitstellungsentscheidungen für Claude Sonnet 4.6.
Vollständige Preisliste, einschließlich Batch-Rabatten und Prompt-Caching-Tarifen.
Wie Modell-IDs, Aliase und angeheftete Snapshots funktionieren.
Lebenszyklus-Status und Einstellungszusagen für jedes Claude-Modell.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 verwendet die InvokeModel-Bedrock-Integration und Bedrock-artige Modell-IDs.