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Claude Sonnet 4.6vsStep 3.5 Flash
Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads 3 of 3 shared benchmarks. Claude Sonnet 4.6 has the larger context window (1M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
3 – 0
Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Claude Sonnet 4.6
1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · —
Anthropic · StepFun
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic · released 2026-02-17
textvision
Step 3.5 Flash
StepFun · released 2026-02-12
text
- Context
- 256K
- Max out
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- Input /1M
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- Output /1M
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- Cached /1M
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- Scores
- 18 · 5 core
Quality
Benchmark matrix
3 shared · 15 only Claude Sonnet 4.6 · 14 only Step 3.5 Flash| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Step 3.5 Flash | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 3 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 79.6% ↗ | 74.4% ↗ | +5.2 pt | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| LMArena Elo | 1458.3 ↗ | 1403.7 ↗ | +54.6 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.1% ↗ | 51% ↗ | +8.1 pt | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| Only Claude Sonnet 4.6 reports · 15 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 89.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | 33.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| ARC-AGI-2 (Verified) | 58.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| GDPval-AA | 1633 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | 49% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MCP Atlas | 61.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMLU | 89.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (no tools) | 74.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (with tools) | 75.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OSWorld-Verified | 72.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 85.8% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 35.5% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | 75.2% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Tau2-bench Retail | 91.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Tau2-bench Telecom | 97.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Step 3.5 Flash reports · 14 | ||||
| AIME 2025 | not reported | 97.3% ↗ | — | — |
| AIME 2026 | not reported | 96.7% ↗matharena | — | — |
| BrowseComp | not reported | 51.6% ↗ | — | — |
| BrowseComp (with context manager) | not reported | 69% ↗ | — | — |
| BrowseComp-ZH | not reported | 66.9% ↗ | — | — |
| BrowseComp-ZH (with context manager) | not reported | 73.7% ↗ | — | — |
| GAIA (no file) | not reported | 84.5% ↗ | — | — |
| HMMT 2025 (Feb/Nov average) | not reported | 96.2% ↗ | — | — |
| IMOAnswerBench | not reported | 85.4% ↗ | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | not reported | 86.4% ↗ | — | — |
| ResearchRubrics | not reported | 65.3% ↗ | — | — |
| Tau2-Bench | not reported | 88.2% ↗ | — | — |
| xbench-DeepSearch 2025.05 | not reported | 83.7% ↗ | — | — |
| xbench-DeepSearch 2025.10 | not reported | 56.3% ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Sonnet 4.6 minus Step 3.5 Flash in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Step 3.5 Flash | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 256K tokens | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| Max output | 128K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $3 ↗ | — | — |
| Output price / 1M | $15 ↗ | — | — |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.3 ↗ | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $18 | — | — |
| Modalities | text · vision | text | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| Released | 2026-02-17 | 2026-02-12 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 19 | 18 | — |
Reliability
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