Sonnet 4.6 Explained: Anthropic’s New Mid-Tier Model Is Here

Claude Sonnet 4.6 dropped today, and the headline isn’t just “it’s better.” It’s that developers with early access preferred it over Anthropic’s own top-tier Opus model 59% of the time. That’s the cheaper model beating the expensive one.First up, the tl;drIf you only have two minutes, here’s what you need to know. Sonnet 4.6 is a full upgrade across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, and design. But here’s what actu