Anthropic Sonnet 4.6 Matches Flagship AI at 1/5 Cost

Anthropic's latest model, Claude Sonnet 4.6, is triggering what industry observers call a "seismic repricing event" for enterprise AI. The company claims the midsized model delivers intelligence comparable to leading flagship models from competitors, but at approximately one-fifth of the cost. This dramatic shift in the price-to-performance ratio arrives amid unprecedented corporate demand for AI agents and coding automation tools. For businesses, it means the capabilities required to automate c