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Claude Sonnet 4.6

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a multimodal large language model developed by Anthropic and released on February 25, 2026. Its documented performance includes an MMLU Pro score of 85.0, an Arena Elo rating of 1470, and a SWE-bench verified score of 79.6, positioning it as a competitive reasoning and coding model. The model was commercially priced at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tok

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Techniques inside
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Median research → prod
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Fastest adoption
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Slowest adoption

Ingredient list

  1. Invented by Anthropic · 2022-12 · Velocity 3y

    Anthropic's core alignment methodology is Constitutional AI, used to train Claude models.

    alignmenthigh
  2. Invented by Google · 2022-01 · Velocity 4y

    Claude models are known for their strong reasoning capabilities, often producing step-by-step reasoning in responses.

    reasoningmedium
  3. Invented by Google · 2021-09 · Velocity 4y

    Claude models are instruction-tuned to follow user instructions, a standard practice for Anthropic.

    trainingmedium
  4. Invented by Google · 2017-06 · Velocity 9y

    Claude Sonnet is a Transformer-based large language model.

    architecturehigh

This recipe is part of the gentic.news Deployment Atlas. Every ingredient has an origin paper + evidence. Methodology is public. Dataset is CC BY 4.0.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Recipe — The Research Behind the Model | gentic.news