OpenRouter: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (OR)

Name: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (OR) API
Brand: Anthropic

stable

Claude Sonnet 4.6 (OR) is available through Everstack's OpenAI-compatible gateway with routing, fallback, retries, and observability.

anthropic-claude-sonnet-4.6claude-4released Feb 17, 2026

Provider Quick start

Context

tokens

Max output

128K

tokens

Input

$3.00

per 1M

Output

$15.00

per 1M

Activity

Daily period usage

Aggregated managed Everstack traffic. Buckets below 5 tenants or 100 requests are withheld.

Providers

ProviderContextInput /MOutput /M

OpenRouter

1M$3.00$15.00

Pricing

Item	Price	Unit
Input	$3.00	per 1M tokens
Output	$15.00	per 1M tokens
Cache read	$0.30	per 1M tokens
Cache write	$3.75	per 1M tokens

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Details

Model ID: anthropic-claude-sonnet-4.6
Family: claude-4
Status: stable
Knowledge: -
Released: Feb 17, 2026

Gateway Config

API: 2024-01-01
Auth: OPENROUTER_API_KEY
Discovery: dynamic
Provider type: meta

Quick Start

index.ts

import Everstack from "@everstack/node";const client = new Everstack({  apiKey: process.env.EVERSTACK_API_KEY!,  baseUrl: "https://{instance}.{region}.everstack.ai",});const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({  model: "@openrouter/anthropic-claude-sonnet-4.6",  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Explain vector cache routing." }],});console.log(completion.choices[0]?.message?.content);

Endpoint

Base URL

https://openrouter.ai/api/v1

Chat completions

https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions

Model

anthropic-claude-sonnet-4.6

Auth env

OPENROUTER_API_KEY

Claude Sonnet 4.6 (OR) FAQ

How much does the Claude Sonnet 4.6 (OR) API cost?

Through OpenRouter, Claude Sonnet 4.6 (OR) costs $3.00 per 1M input tokens and $15.00 per 1M output tokens.

What is the context window of Claude Sonnet 4.6 (OR)?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 (OR) accepts up to 1M tokens of context and returns up to 128K output tokens on OpenRouter.

What can Claude Sonnet 4.6 (OR) do?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 (OR) supports chat, function calling, image input and reasoning. It accepts text, image and PDF input.

How do I call Claude Sonnet 4.6 (OR) through Everstack?

Point any OpenAI-compatible SDK at your Everstack gateway and set the model to @openrouter/anthropic-claude-sonnet-4.6. Everstack adds retries, provider fallback, caching, per-tenant budgets and OpenTelemetry traces for every request.