compare/Claude Sonnet 4.6vso4-mini

Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs o4-mini

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
o4-mini
openai/o4-mini
ProviderAnthropicopenai
FamilyClaude 4openai
Modalitytexttext
Context window200,000 tok200,000 tok
Max output128,000 tok100,000 tok
Released2026-04-132026-04-13
Input price$3.00 /1M$1.10 /1M
Output price$15.00 /1M$4.40 /1M
Cache read$0.300 /1M
Toolsyes
Streamingyesyes
Visionyes
JSON modeyes
Reasoningyesyes
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
o4-mini
openai/o4-mini
Full spec →

OpenAI's fast, lightweight reasoning model optimized for multi-step problem solving at lower cost.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Streaming
  • Step-by-step reasoning
  • Low-latency inference
SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, both models, one line different.

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 o4-mini — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="openai/o4-mini",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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