Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Claude Haiku 4.5
How Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic) and Claude Haiku 4.5 (Anthropic) compare on price, context window and best-fit use case.
In short: Claude Sonnet 4.6 is best for Everyday coding, agents, and production apps wanting Claude quality without flagship pricing, while Claude Haiku 4.5 suits Real-time chat, routing, classification, and high-throughput pipelines on a budget. On price it's $3.00 vs $1.00 per 1M input tokens; on context, 1M tokens vs 200K tokens.
| Spec | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 200K tokens |
| Input price /1M | $3.00 | $1.00 |
| Output price /1M | $15.00 | $5.00 |
| Modalities | text, image | text, image |
| Best for | Everyday coding, agents, and production apps wanting Claude quality without flagship pricing. | Real-time chat, routing, classification, and high-throughput pipelines on a budget. |
Claude Sonnet 4.6
- Strong coding at lower cost than Opus
- 1M context window
- Fast and reliable
- Excellent for agentic tooling
Claude Haiku 4.5
- Low latency
- Cheapest Claude tier
- Good reasoning for its size
- Strong tool use