Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Claude Sonnet 4.6
Compare Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Claude Sonnet 4.6, both from Anthropic, in 4 community votes, claude sonnet 4.6 wins 67% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 200K vs 1.0M, tested across 42 shared challenges.
Reasoning: Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Claude Sonnet 4.6 are tied
Our Verdict
Claude Sonnet 4.6Winner
Claude Sonnet 4.5Runner-up
Pick Claude Sonnet 4.6. In 4 blind votes, Claude Sonnet 4.6 wins 67% of the time. That's not luck.
Clear winner
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
76%
Claude Sonnet 4.5 uses 3.8x more transitions
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Claude Sonnet 4.6
64%Vocabulary56%
94wSentence Length36w
0.48Hedging0.53
4.9Bold5.1
8.0Lists3.4
0.45Emoji0.19
1.91Headings2.10
0.07Transitions0.02
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