Frontier reasoning drops to mid tier prices while security shifts to defenders
Claude Sonnet 4.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro and Claude Code Security, and The Deploy Log for this week. Every price and claim read off the publisher's own page, with a call on each.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.6
DEPLOYif you run agentic coding or computer use
WHAT SHIPPEDClaude Sonnet 4.6 is a full upgrade across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design. Pricing remains the same as Sonnet 4.5, starting at $3/$15 per million tokens, with a 1M token context window in beta.
THE CATCHIn Claude Code, users preferred Sonnet 4.6 over Sonnet 4.5 roughly 70% of the time and even preferred it to Opus 4.5, the frontier model from November, 59% of the time. It hit 94% on an insurance benchmark for computer use.
IF YOU RUNa team doing agentic coding at scale or automating legacy software without APIs
SOURCEAnthropic, Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6
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