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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Laguna S 2.1

List-price comparison ·Claude Sonnet 4.6 details ·Laguna S 2.1 details

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For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Laguna S 2.1 is the cheapest — 98% less than the priciest here ($20.00/mo vs $960.00/mo).

 Claude Sonnet 4.6Laguna S 2.1
Input / 1M tokens$3.00$0.100
Output / 1M tokens$15.00$0.200
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0096$0.0002
Context window1M tokens1,048,576 tokens
Max output128k tokens131,072 tokens
Quality score88/10072/100
TierBalancedBalanced
ProviderAnthropicPoolside

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moClaude Sonnet 4.6Laguna S 2.1
1,000$9.60$0.2
10,000$96.00$2.00
100,000$960.00$20.00
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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.

Laguna S 2.1

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