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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs WizardLM-2 8x22B

List-price comparison ·Claude Sonnet 4.6 details ·WizardLM-2 8x22B details

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For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), WizardLM-2 8x22B is the cheapest — 90% less than the priciest here ($99.20/mo vs $960.00/mo).

 Claude Sonnet 4.6WizardLM-2 8x22B
Input / 1M tokens$3.00$0.620
Output / 1M tokens$15.00$0.620
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0096$0.001
Context window1M tokens65,535 tokens
Max output128k tokens8k tokens
Quality score88/10081/100
TierBalancedBalanced
ProviderAnthropicMicrosoft

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moClaude Sonnet 4.6WizardLM-2 8x22B
1,000$9.60$0.992
10,000$96.00$9.92
100,000$960.00$99.20
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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.

WizardLM-2 8x22B

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Vendor list rates · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.