Anthropic’s Claude 4.6 family welcomed its newest (and second-only) member in Claude Sonnet 4.6. We already know performance gaps are shrinking every release cycle. Recent benchmarks show Sonnet 4.6 delivers roughly 97–99% of Opus 4.6 coding capability at far lower cost. And while Opus 4.6 still leads in deep reasoning and advanced multi-step engineering planning, […]