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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Relace Search

List-price comparison ·Claude Sonnet 4.6 details ·Relace Search details

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For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Relace Search is the cheapest — 75% less than the priciest here ($240.00/mo vs $960.00/mo).

 Claude Sonnet 4.6Relace Search
Input / 1M tokens$3.00$1.00
Output / 1M tokens$15.00$3.00
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0096$0.0024
Context window1M tokens256k tokens
Max output128k tokens128k tokens
Quality score88/10062/100
TierBalancedBalanced
ProviderAnthropicRelace

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moClaude Sonnet 4.6Relace Search
1,000$9.60$2.40
10,000$96.00$24.00
100,000$960.00$240.00
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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.

Relace Search

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