Claude Sonnet 4.6
No estimate
No hardware requirements for this model
The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.
On record
Full specification
Everything on record for this model. Most of it describes how it was trained rather than how it runs — useful context for judging how much work went into it, and how it compares with models built at a different scale.
Origin
Who built this model, where, and when it was published.
- Organisation
- Anthropic
- Organisation type
- Industry
- Country
- United States of America
- Published
- 17 February 2026
What it does
The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.
- Domain
- Language, Multimodal, Vision
- Task
- Code generation, Language modeling/generation, Quantitative reasoning, Search, Visual question answering, Translation, Image captioning, Instruction interpretation, Mathematical reasoning, Visual puzzles, Code autocompletion, Chat, Character recognition (OCR), Language modeling, Language generation, Text autocompletion, Retrieval-augmented generation, System control
Size
How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.
- Training data
- tokens
Availability
Whether you can obtain the model and run it on your own hardware, which is what decides if any of the graphics-card figures on this page apply.
- Weights
- Closed — provider access only
- Model access
- API access
- Training code
- Unreleased
How it is classified
Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.
- Likely above 10²³ FLOP
- Yes
- Record confidence
- Likely
Sources
Where this record came from and when it was last checked.
- Reference
- Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6
- Last updated
- 28 May 2026
What the numbers mean
About this model
Claude Sonnet 4.6 was published by Anthropic, in the country recorded as United States of America, during February 2026. The publishing organisation is categorised as industry.
It works in the domain of Language, Multimodal, Vision, and is recorded as performing the task of code generation, Language modeling/generation, Quantitative reasoning, Search, Visual question answering, Translation, Image captioning, Instruction interpretation, Mathematical reasoning, Visual puzzles, Code autocompletion, Chat, Character recognition (OCR), Language modeling, Language generation, Text autocompletion, Retrieval-augmented generation, System control.
Because the weights are not available, none of the hardware figures elsewhere on this site apply to it.
Answers
Claude Sonnet 4.6 — common questions
Claude Sonnet 4.6— is it open source?
No. Its weights have not been published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.
Claude Sonnet 4.6— how many parameters does it have?
No parameter count has been published for it, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.
Claude Sonnet 4.6— who created it?
It was published by Anthropic, based in United States of America, an organisation categorised as industry.
Claude Sonnet 4.6— when was it released?
It was published in February 2026.
Claude Sonnet 4.6— what is it used for?
It works in the domain of Language, Multimodal, Vision, and is recorded as handling the task of code generation, Language modeling/generation, Quantitative reasoning, Search, Visual question answering, Translation, Image captioning, Instruction interpretation, Mathematical reasoning, Visual puzzles, Code autocompletion, Chat, Character recognition (OCR), Language modeling, Language generation, Text autocompletion, Retrieval-augmented generation, System control. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.
Claude Sonnet 4.6— what GPU do I need to run it?
None. This is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.
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