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| Attribute | Claude Sonnet 4.6claude-sonnet-4-6 | Gemini 3.8 Flashgemini-3.8-flash | GPT-6 Astragpt-6-astra |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Input | $2.40 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M |
| Output | $12.00 / 1M | $3.75 / 1M | $50.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $3.00 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $4.80 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $0.24 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | |||
| Max context | 1M | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | |||
| Vision | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | |||
| Provider | Anthropic | OpenAI | |
| Category | chat | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — | — |
| Description | |||
| Summary | Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model, delivering frontier-level performance across coding, agent workflows, and professional knowledge tasks. It excels at iterative development, complex codebase navigation, and end-to-end project execution, supported by strong contextual understanding and persistent task handling. Beyond engineering tasks, Sonnet 4.6 produces polished documents and analyses while demonstrating reliable computer-use capabilities for web QA, workflow automation, and structured productivity workflows, making it well suited for both development and professional applications. | Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's most intelligent Flash-class model, delivering significant improvements over Gemini 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic workflows, and complex multi-step reasoning. Designed to combine strong capability with Flash-tier efficiency, it is well suited for coding assistants, autonomous agents, and high-throughput production workflows that require responsive performance without sacrificing reasoning quality. | GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI's flagship model for demanding end-to-end professional work, designed for advanced analysis, software engineering, deep research, scientific tasks, and document creation. It is particularly strong in long-horizon agentic workflows, including tasks that require sustained reasoning, tool orchestration, and computer and browser use, making it well suited for complex autonomous workflows and production-grade knowledge work. |