# Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Claude Sonnet 5.5

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads Claude Sonnet 5.5 in 0 of 7 shared categories.

Claude Sonnet 4.6: $6 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Sonnet 5.5: $4.000000000000001 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Sonnet 4.6: closed weights.

Claude Sonnet 5.5: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads Claude Sonnet 4.6 in General LLM at #29 against #38.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Reasoning at #18 against #20.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Science at #3 against #50.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Coding › Web dev at #3 against #43.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Long context at #11 against #21.
- Which to pick, Vision: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Vision at #1 against #23.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Factuality at #17 against #38.

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a former state-of-the-art holder in Long context (since Mar 19, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, longer query); methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Sonnet 5.5 is tied for state of the art in Coding (since Oct 6, 2026; sources Terminal-Bench 4.0; methodology v1.0).