compare/Claude Sonnet 4.6vsVeo 3.1

Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Veo 3.1

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.

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 Claude Sonnet 4.6
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
Veo 3.1
google/veo-3.1
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
FamilyClaude 4Veo
Modalitytextvideo
Context window200,000 tok
Max output128,000 tok
Released2026-04-132026-04-08
Input price$3.00 /1M$0.400 /sec
Output price$15.00 /1M
Cache read$0.300 /1M
Toolsyes
Streamingyes
Visionyes
JSON modeyes
Reasoningyes
Prompt cachingyes
Claude Sonnet 4.6
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
Full spec →

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's latest balanced model offering strong coding, reasoning, and agentic capabilities with improved instruction following.

Strengths
  • Best cost/quality ratio for agentic workloads
  • Low latency
  • Strong tool calling
Veo 3.1
google/veo-3.1
Full spec →

Google's latest video generation model with improved quality, motion, and audio generation.

Strengths
  • Cinematic motion
  • Native audio generation
  • Up to 60s clips
SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, both models, one line different.

# pip install aigateway-py openai
# aigateway-py: sub-accounts, evals, replays, jobs, webhook verify.
# openai SDK: chat/embeddings/images/audio — drop-in compat per our SDK's own guidance.
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 Veo 3.1 — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="google/veo-3.1",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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