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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Perceptron Mk1.5

List-price comparison ·Claude Sonnet 4.6 details ·Perceptron Mk1.5 details

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For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Perceptron Mk1.5 is the cheapest — 92% less than the priciest here ($78.00/mo vs $960.00/mo).

 Claude Sonnet 4.6Perceptron Mk1.5
Input / 1M tokens$3.00$0.150
Output / 1M tokens$15.00$1.50
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0096$0.0008
Context window1M tokens36,864 tokens
Max output128k tokens8,192 tokens
Quality score88/10068/100
TierBalancedBalanced
ProviderAnthropicPerceptron

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moClaude Sonnet 4.6Perceptron Mk1.5
1,000$9.60$0.78
10,000$96.00$7.80
100,000$960.00$78.00
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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.

Perceptron Mk1.5

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