Claude Sonnet 4.6

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a model from Anthropic, released February 17, 2026. Its best result is #39 of 91 on Legal Research Bench.

Release Date: Feb 17, 2026

Developer Anthropic Β πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
Context Window 1M
Max Output Tokens 128k
Token Costs (in/out) $3.00/15.00
Weights Private
Input Modalities

Accuracy

59.93 %

Avg. Cost (In/Out)

$ 3.00 / $ 15.00

Latency

19 min 26 s

Vals Index
BenchmarksAccuracyRankings

39.89%

Β±4.14
31/79

60.15%

Β±3.28
34/76

51.03%

Β±0.33
42/81

38.46%

Β±3.38
39/91

67.73%

Β±0.92
22/98

62.45%

Β±1.26
27/50

25.84%

Β±3.15
42/82

77.11%

Β±0.82
4/145

51.48%

Β±4.64
66/125

85.61%

Β±2.41
48/138

82.09%

Β±1.06
57/143

82.12%

Β±0.48
75/151

87.34%

Β±0.43
29/138

83.58%

Β±0.89
31/93

0.50%

Β±0.50
31/65

49.05%

Β±4.64
24/35

77.40%

Β±1.87
35/88

57.30%

Β±0.65
45/75
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Vals
Default Provider : Anthropic
Temperature: Default
Top P: Default
Top K: Default
Max Output Tokens: 128,000
Compute Effort: max

Updates

Feb 17, 2026

Anthropic’s latest model, Claude Sonnet 4.6, debuts at #1 on our Vals Index and #1 on the Vals Multimodal Index, evaluated across 17 benchmarks. Key takeaways: