Overview
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 on April 16, 2026. Pricing stays the same as Opus 4.6 ($5 / $25 per MTok), while delivering broad improvements across coding, vision, and instruction following. Model ID: claude-opus-4-7. Available on Claude.ai, Claude Code, the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry.
Key improvements
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Software engineering — on long-running agent tasks, prior models tended to drift from initial instructions and loosen constraints over time. Opus 4.7 holds strictness and consistency over extended sessions. 10–14% average improvement over Opus 4.6 on major coding evals.
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High-resolution visual understanding — processes up to 2,576 px (~3.75 megapixels) natively, a 3× resolution jump over prior Opus. Internal visual accuracy eval: 54.5% → 98.5%. Makes chemistry diagrams, circuit schematics, and UI screenshots usable.
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Literal instruction following — earlier models inferred intent and occasionally abbreviated or skipped steps. Opus 4.7 is tuned to follow instructions literally — good for checklist-heavy workflows with strict formatting or forbidden conditions.
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Filesystem-based memory — more reliable cross-session workflows where prior-session decisions and notes are left as files and picked up by the next session.
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Document analysis citations — 21% fewer citation errors. BigLaw Bench: 90.9%. Finance Agent: state of the art.
New capabilities
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xhigheffort level — a new level betweenhighandmaxfor finer control over reasoning depth vs. latency. Particularly impactful in multi-turn agent setups. -
Task Budgets (API, public beta) — guides per-task token spend so agent runs don’t drift over budget.
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/ultrareviewin Claude Code — a deeper, stricter review session than/reviewthat reads through changes and flags bugs and design issues.
Benchmarks (vs Opus 4.6)
| Area | Result |
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| Coding eval average | +10–14% |
| Visual accuracy | 54.5% → 98.5% |
| Document citation errors | -21% |
| BigLaw Bench (legal) | 90.9% |
| Finance Agent | SOTA |
Pricing and availability
| Input | $5 / MTok (unchanged) |
| Output | $25 / MTok (unchanged) |
| Model ID | claude-opus-4-7 |
| Platforms | Claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude API, Bedrock, Vertex AI, Foundry |
Notes
- New tokenizer — Opus 4.7 ships with an updated tokenizer; the same text can map to 1.0–1.35× more tokens than 4.6. Re-check token usage estimates and budgets.
- More thinking at higher effort —
xhighandhighlevels consume more thinking tokens in multi-turn agent setups. Pair with prompt caching (ENABLE_PROMPT_CACHING_1H) to manage cost. - Safety profile — Anthropic reports overall safety profile comparable to Opus 4.6, with improvements in honesty and resistance to prompt injection attacks.