• Blog Post Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Microsoft Foundry-Frontier Performance for Scale Claude Sonnet 4.6 is available today in Microsoft Foundry, and it is designed for teams who want frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work at scale. • Last week, we took a major step forward with the availability of Claude Opus 4.6 in Microsoft Foundry, bringing frontier AI capable of deep reasoning, agentic workflows, and complex decision-making to enterprise developers and builders. • If Opus represents the highest tier of AI performance, Sonnet 4.6 builds on that momentum by delivering nearly Opus-level intelligence at a lower price, while often being more token efficient than Claude Sonnet 4.5. • Claude Sonnet 4.6 is available today in Microsoft Foundry, and it is designed for teams who want frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work at scale. • With Sonnet 4.6, customers get access to powerful reasoning and productivity capabilities that make everyday AI a practical reality for development teams, enterprise knowledge workers, and automation scenarios. • Large Context, Adaptive Thinking, and Effort Controls Claude Sonnet 4.6 delivers frontier intelligence at scale, built for coding, agents, and enterprise workflows.

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  • Claude Sonnet 4.6 has been released today in Microsoft Foundry, offering teams near‑Opus‑level AI performance at a lower cost. The new model supports a 1 million‑token context window (beta) and 128 K maximum output, enabling work on large codebases, financial models, and multi‑document analyses without frequent context resets. It introduces adaptive thinking and effort controls, allowing the model to decide when deeper reasoning is needed and letting developers balance quality, latency, and cost. Sonnet 4.6 is positioned as a developer‑friendly upgrade, improving reasoning across code, iterative workflows, and enterprise knowledge tasks such as drafting reports, summarizing documents, and generating structured content.

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