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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 multimodal model release, treated here as a specific release target.

Pricing

Official site · Jun 15, 2026, 6:35 AM
Input / 1M
$5.00
Output / 1M
$25.00
Cached input / 1M
$0.50

Official first-party pricing page also lists prompt-caching write rates of $6.25/MTok for 5-minute TTL and $10/MTok for 1-hour TTL. Batch pricing is separate at $2.50/MTok input and $12.50/MTok output.

Anthropic’s official pricing page lists Claude Opus 4.7 at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, with prompt-caching read/hit pricing of $0.50 per million tokens. Anthropic’s announcement also says Opus 4.7 has improved vision and multimodal understanding, so it should be treated as a multimodal product.

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Model Intelligence

Arena ranking
54
Benchmarkable
Yes
Model level
release
Intelligence Index
53.5
Coding Index
73.6
GPQA
0.91
HLE
0.4
SciCode
0.55
IFBench
0.59
LCR
0.7
TerminalBench Hard
0.52
TAU2
0.89

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