Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Command R+
Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Claude Sonnet 4.6 is meaningfully stronger at multimodal (82 vs 5 on our capability index).
- •Claude Sonnet 4.6 has a 1M context window vs 128K tokens - better for whole-repo or long-document work.
Specs comparison
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Command R+ | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Cohere |
| Type | Closed source | Closed source |
| Context window | ✓1M | 128K tokens |
| Input / 1M tokens | $3.00 | ✓$2.50 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $15.00 | $10.00 |
| Release date | 2026-02 | 2024-08 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Command R+ |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 79.6% | - |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.1% | - |
| OSWorld-Verified | 72.5% | - |
| GPQA | 79.7% | - |
| RAG (BEIR) | - | Top-5 |
| MMLU | - | ~75% |
Scores sourced from official provider release posts and independent benchmark aggregators.
Which should you choose?
Choose Claude Sonnet 4.6 if...
- →You have an existing integration pinned to Sonnet 4.6 and want stability
- →You need a proven mid-tier model with 1M context at $3/$15
- →You want predictable behavior without the new-tokenizer/thinking changes in Sonnet 5
- →You are cost-sensitive and don't need Sonnet 5's incremental gains
Choose Command R+ if...
- →Your core use case is grounded RAG with citations
- →You need reliable multi-step tool/agent orchestration
- →You want an enterprise model available on Bedrock
- →You need multilingual responses across the 10 optimized languages