Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 out yet?
Yes.
About Claude Sonnet 4.6
The current balanced Claude Sonnet for high-volume coding and chat.
How we confirmed it
Released via official access
February 17, 2026 at 12:00 AM UTC
Release timeline
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Benchmarks
LM Arena#31
claude-sonnet-4-6 · via LM Arena · 66,638 votes · captured Aug 16, 2026 · source
1471.9860897858625
Coding#35
Claude Sonnet 4.6 · via BenchLM.ai · captured Aug 16, 2026 · source
57.48
Agentic#49
Claude Sonnet 4.6 · via BenchLM.ai · captured Aug 16, 2026 · source
52
Reasoning#14
Claude Sonnet 4.6 · via BenchLM.ai · captured Jul 17, 2026 · source
80.9
Knowledge#18
Claude Sonnet 4.6 · via BenchLM.ai · captured Aug 16, 2026 · source
76.9
Math#26
Claude Sonnet 4.6 · via BenchLM.ai · captured Jul 3, 2026 · source
76.5
MultimodalGrounded#12
Claude Sonnet 4.6 · via BenchLM.ai · captured Jul 17, 2026 · source
84.4
Multilingual#9
Claude Sonnet 4.6 · via BenchLM.ai · captured Jul 17, 2026 · source
89.6
InstructionFollowing#26
Claude Sonnet 4.6 · via BenchLM.ai · captured Jul 17, 2026 · source
79.9
FrontierCode Diamond
Claude Sonnet 4.6 · via Epoch AI · captured Jul 24, 2026 · source
3.5
ExploitBench
Claude Sonnet 4.6 · via Epoch AI · captured Aug 16, 2026 · source
23.6
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