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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Weaver (alpha)

List-price comparison · Claude Sonnet 4.6 details · Weaver (alpha) details

For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Weaver (alpha) costs 86% less $130.00/mo vs $960.00/mo.

 Claude Sonnet 4.6Weaver (alpha)
Input / 1M tokens$3.00$0.750
Output / 1M tokens$15.00$1.00
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0096$0.0013
Context window1M tokens8k tokens
Max output128k tokens2k tokens
TierBalancedBalanced
ProviderAnthropicMancer

Projected monthly cost

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Claude Sonnet 4.6

Strong price-to-performance for production agents: reliable tool use, structured JSON output, and solid coding ability at roughly a fifth of Opus's cost.

Can still misstep on the hardest multi-step reasoning chains where Opus would succeed — budget for occasional escalation to a flagship model.

Weaver (alpha)

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