Anthropic Releases Claude Sonnet 4.6 with Leading Agentic and Financial Analysis Performance

Summary

Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 4.6, its latest flagship model, which is now the default for both free and Pro users on the Claude platform. The model is priced at the same rate as its predecessor, Claude Sonnet 4.5. According to Anthropic's benchmark results, Sonnet 4.6 is the company's most powerful model for agentic financial analysis and office tasks, outperforming competitors including Google's Gemini 3 Pro and OpenAI's GPT 5.2 on those specific benchmarks. Notably, Sonnet 4.6 also sur