Anthropic released Sonnet 4.6 today. Key updates are 1M token context in beta and no Sonnet price increase ($3 input / $15 output per MTok, same as Sonnet 4.5).
In Anthropic's early Claude Code testing, users preferred Sonnet 4.6 over Sonnet 4.5 70% of the time, and over Opus 4.5 59% of the time.
So the angle is not "same price as Opus" - it is "closer to Opus 4.5 level behavior at Sonnet pricing."
Curious what workloads you still keep on Opus.
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