// claude
Claude Sonnet 4.6
The everyday driver. 60% of Opus quality at 20% of the cost.
Official list
llmrelay
Input / M tokens
$3.00
$1.50
Output / M tokens
$15.00
$7.50
Context window
—
200,000 tokens
Max output
—
8,192 tokens
What it costs you per month
Real-world budget scenarios. Numbers are simple sums — official list price vs llmrelay's 50% off tier.
Usage scenario
Official
llmrelay
Light coding (1M in / 200K out per month)
$6.00
$3.00save $3.00
Heavy Cursor / Cline user (50M in / 5M out per month)
$225.00
$112.50save $112.50
Production RAG (500M in / 20M out per month)
$1800.00
$900.00save $900.00
What it's good at
- +Fast
- +Cheap enough for RAG
- +Long context
- +Good enough for most coding tasks
Best for
- — RAG apps
- — High-volume chat
- — Non-agent coding
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New accounts get $0.20 in free credit. Enough to run this model against a real task and compare quality yourself.
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