AI5 min read
Artificial intelligence
Sonnet 4.6 just made Opus look expensive. That changes everything.
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.6 matches or beats Opus-class performance on key benchmarks while keeping the same pricing as Sonnet 4.5. Early developer preference data and customer testimonials suggest the model is already displacing costlier alternatives for real-world agentic and coding tasks.
2026-07-14