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title: Claude Sonnet 4.6
description: Claude Sonnet 4.6 by Anthropic — balanced speed and quality, default recommendation for most lenses.
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# Claude Sonnet 4.6

**Key:** `claude-sonnet-4-6`  
**Provider:** [Anthropic](/en/providers/anthropic/)  
**Support:** `runnable`

## Capabilities

chat · reasoning · tools

## Specifications

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| Context window | 200 000 tokens |
| Input modalities | text |
| Output modalities | text |

## When to use

The recommended default for most Claude-backed lenses. Balances speed, cost, and quality well. Suitable for the majority of instruction-following, summarisation, analysis, and agentic workflow tasks.

## Provider documentation

→ [Anthropic model overview](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/models/overview)
