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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Claude Sonnet 5 on Amazon Bedrock

In us-east-1, Claude Sonnet 5 costs $2.00 per 1M input tokens against $3.00 — a 1.5× difference. Prices, context, capabilities and region coverage below.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic
anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6
Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$15.00
Context
1M
Est. / month
$3,510
Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic
anthropic.claude-sonnet-5
Input / 1M
$2.00
Output / 1M
$10.00
Context
1M
Est. / month
$2,340

Capabilities

Capability Claude Sonnet 4.6 Claude Sonnet 5
Tool use ✓ ✓
Vision ✓ ✓
Prompt caching ✓ ✓
Batch inference ✓ ✓
Streaming ✓ ✓

Region availability

Region Claude Sonnet 4.6 Claude Sonnet 5
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Inference profile only Inference profile only
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Inference profile only Inference profile only
us-west-1 US West (N. California) Inference profile only Inference profile only
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ca-central-1 Canada (Central) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ca-west-1 Canada West (Calgary) Inference profile only Inference profile only
mx-central-1 Mexico (Central) Inference profile only Inference profile only
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland) Inference profile only Inference profile only
eu-west-2 EU (London) On-demand Inference profile only
eu-west-3 EU (Paris) Inference profile only Inference profile only
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt) Inference profile only Inference profile only
eu-central-2 Europe (Zurich) Inference profile only Inference profile only
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm) Inference profile only Inference profile only
eu-south-1 EU (Milan) Inference profile only Inference profile only
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-east-2 Asia Pacific (Taipei) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-south-2 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-southeast-3 Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-southeast-4 Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-southeast-5 Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-southeast-6 Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Inference profile only Inference profile only
ap-southeast-7 Asia Pacific (Thailand) Inference profile only Inference profile only
il-central-1 Israel (Tel Aviv) Inference profile only Inference profile only
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town) Inference profile only Inference profile only
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Inference profile only Inference profile only

31 of 31 regions support both models.

Common questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Claude Sonnet 5 cheaper on Amazon Bedrock?
Claude Sonnet 5 is cheaper on input tokens: $2.00 against $3.00 per 1M in us-east-1, a 1.5× difference. At 2,000 runs a day with 12,000 input and 1,500 output tokens each, that is $2,340 against $3,510 a month before any caching or batch discount.
Does Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Claude Sonnet 5 have the larger context window?
Both have a 1M-token context window.
Which regions support Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Claude Sonnet 5?
Claude Sonnet 4.6 runs in 31 of the 31 AWS regions tracked here and Claude Sonnet 5 in 31. 31 regions support both, so a workload that may switch between them should target one of those.
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