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Best Claude Sonnet 4.6 alternatives

Users might look for alternatives to Claude Sonnet 4.6 when prioritizing faster output speeds, lower pricing, higher intelligence scores, or expanded modality support alongside large context windows. This list details seven proprietary multimodal models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google based on the provided specifications and attributes.

Multi-agent multimodal model for massive context tasks

Output price: $2.50/1MContext: 2000KProvider: xAI

Multimodal model handling large-scale image, text, and file tasks.

Output price: $120.00/1MContext: 400KProvider: OpenAI

It matches GPT-5.1-Codex specs for coding-focused multimodal tasks with 400000 token context at $10 per million tokens, providing similar strengths in large text and image handling without quantified intelligence or speed metrics.

Output price: $10.00/1MContext: 400KProvider: OpenAI

Google's multimodal model processes text, images, audio, video and files over 1M tokens.

Output price: $10.00/1MContext: 1049KProvider: Google

Multimodal model handling images, text, and files over vast contexts.

Output price: $168.00/1MContext: 400KProvider: OpenAI

OpenAI's multimodal model for large-scale text and image tasks.

Intelligence: 36.1Output speed: 158 t/sOutput price: $10.00/1MContext: 400K

Handles million-token multimodal inputs with precision.

Intelligence: 53.5Output speed: 50 t/sOutput price: $25.00/1MContext: 1000K

OpenAI's compact multimodal model for long-context file and image tasks.

Intelligence: 38.2Output speed: 151 t/sOutput price: $1.25/1MContext: 400K

Frequently asked questions

Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast) is the strongest by intelligence index at 53.5 while retaining the 1000000 token context and safety alignment focus.