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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Hy4 preview

List-price comparison ·Claude Sonnet 4.6 details ·Hy4 preview details

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For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Hy4 preview is the cheapest — 79% less than the priciest here ($200.12/mo vs $960.00/mo).

 Claude Sonnet 4.6Hy4 preview
Input / 1M tokens$3.00$0.834
Output / 1M tokens$15.00$2.50
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0096$0.002
Context window1M tokens1,048,576 tokens
Max output128k tokens64k tokens
Quality score88/10076/100
TierBalancedBalanced
ProviderAnthropicTencent

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moClaude Sonnet 4.6Hy4 preview
1,000$9.60$2.00
10,000$96.00$20.01
100,000$960.00$200.12
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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.

Hy4 preview

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