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Claude Sonnet 4.6

ECI#36
152
Anthropic
Feb. 17, 2026
Closed weights

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a closed-weights model from Anthropic, released February 17, 2026. It has an ECI score of 152 and ranks 36th of 249 tracked models. At the time of its release, it ranked 6th of 187 tracked models.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs select alternatives

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Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic
Feb. 17, 2026
Closed weights
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Nov. 24, 2025
Closed weights
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Feb. 5, 2026
Closed weights
xAI
Feb. 17, 2026
Closed weights
ECI scoreBest score 166
152150155152
Ranking#36#45#24#38
Computer use
OS WorldBest score 72%
72%
66%
n/a
n/a
Conceptual reasoning
ARC-AGI-2Best score 95%
60%
38%
69%
65%
ARC-AGI-1Best score 99%
87%
80%
94%
90%
Games
Chess PuzzlesBest score 72%
13%
12%
17%
24%
Mystery Game PuzzlesBest score 84%
16%
22%
25%
n/a
Mathematics
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025Best score 100%
86%
86%
94%
92%
Science
GPQA DiamondBest score 96%
87%
86%
91%
89%
Software engineering
SWE-bench VerifiedBest score 83%
75%
77%
79%
n/a
World knowledge
SimpleQA VerifiedBest score 76%
36%
46%
47%
30%

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