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Claude Opus 4.7 is an Anthropic Claude model release announced on April 16, 2026 and generally available across Claude products, the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry. Anthropic describes it as an improvement over Opus 4.6 for advanced software engineering, long-running agentic tasks, instruction following, and vision/image understanding.

Pricing

Official site · Aug 10, 2026, 7:22 AM
Input / 1M
$5.00
Output / 1M
$25.00
Cached input / 1M
$0.50

Official Anthropic model pricing table: Base Input Tokens $5/MTok; 5m Cache Writes $6.25/MTok; 1h Cache Writes $10/MTok; Cache Hits & Refreshes $0.50/MTok; Output Tokens $25/MTok. Pricing page states all prices are in USD and MTok = million tokens.

Anthropic's official Claude Platform pricing page lists Claude Opus 4.7 at $5 per million base input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, with cache hits/refreshes at $0.50 per million tokens. The page states all prices are in USD and that MTok means million tokens.

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Model Intelligence

Context window
1,000,000 tokens
Arena ranking
44
Benchmarkable
Yes
Model level
release
Intelligence Index
43.9
GPQA
0.89
HLE
0.33
SciCode
0.5
IFBench
0.44
LCR
0.72
TerminalBench Hard
0.55
TAU2
0.74

Recent stories

7 linked stories
releaseSECONDARY2026-05-12
Claude Code adds /goal checks for long-running tasks

Anthropic added /goal to Claude Code for completion-checked runs, alongside /loop, /schedule, stop hooks, auto mode guidance, and an Opus 4.7 fast mode preview. Use /goal when a session needs to keep working until a defined condition is met; fast mode is opt-in now and becomes the default on Thursday.

newsSECONDARY2026-04-19
Claude Design limits weekly quota to 77% after two tasks, users report

Users report Claude Design consumed 63%-77% of weekly limits after an app and a deck. Fresh export posts also show HTML and JSX handoff into Claude Code, but the Claude look still remains visible.

newsSECONDARY2026-04-18
Claude Design supports Claude Code handoff as users rate wireframes 9/10 and video 4.5/10

Creators spent the first full day using Claude Design for landing pages, brand kits, and slide layouts, with exports into Claude Code. Reports say it works well for wireframes and iteration but can burn quota quickly and still struggles with precise layout and brand cleanup.

newsPRIMARY2026-04-18
Claude Opus 4.7 raises token burn 1.0-1.35x as users report refusals

Fresh HN discussion and creator posts say Opus 4.7's tokenizer change, xhigh defaults, and adaptive thinking can make sessions costlier or harder to steer. Users also report normal workflows triggering safety refusals or burning large chunks of monthly limits in a single project.

releaseSECONDARY2026-04-17
Anthropic launches Claude Design for prototypes, slides, and one-pagers

Anthropic launched Claude Design in research preview to turn chats, files, and screenshots into prototypes, slides, and one-pagers. Early users praised design-system matching and code export, but hit high token and rate limits.

releaseSECONDARY2026-04-17
WOZCODE claims 54% lower Claude Code cost on Opus 4.7 benchmark

Users posted WOZCODE, a Claude Code plugin that swaps in smarter file and search tools, and reported 54% lower cost, 68% fewer turns, and faster completion on the same Opus 4.7 task. The benchmark is community-run, but it includes install steps and repeatable commands.

releasePRIMARY2026-04-16
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 with xhigh effort and adaptive thinking

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 with adaptive thinking, xhigh effort, and new Claude Code controls including auto mode, recaps, and ultrareview. The update also changes token use, adds a tokenizer update, and fixes rate limits for longer coding and creative sessions.

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