Pricing, context window, capabilities, and release date — pulled from each provider's public docs. Both are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.
Both models stream in parallel through your own AIgateway key. Tokens, latency, and cost update as they arrive.
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 | Claude Haiku 4.5 anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Family | Claude 4 | Claude 4 |
| Modality | text | text |
| Context window | 200,000 tok | 200,000 tok |
| Max output | 128,000 tok | 8,192 tok |
| Released | 2026-04-13 | 2026-04-13 |
| Input price | $3.00 /1M | $1.00 /1M |
| Output price | $15.00 /1M | $5.00 /1M |
| Cache read | $0.300 /1M | $0.100 /1M |
| Tools | yes | yes |
| Streaming | yes | yes |
| Vision | yes | yes |
| JSON mode | yes | yes |
| Reasoning | yes | yes |
| Prompt caching | yes | yes |
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's latest balanced model offering strong coding, reasoning, and agentic capabilities with improved instruction following.
Claude Haiku 4.5 delivers similar levels of coding performance at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed of larger models.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
api_key="sk-aig-...",
)
# Try Claude Sonnet 4.6
client.chat.completions.create(
model="anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
# Try Claude Haiku 4.5 — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
model="anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)