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Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 vs Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 ·Anthropic vs Anthropic

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 vs Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 — head-to-head comparison

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 profile Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 profile All comparisons
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 — Anthropic
Quality
#27 of 65
72based on 5 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#176 of 339
47.0
Output tokens per second
Price
#409 of 439
$10.00
Blended per 1M tokens
In $5.00 · Out $25.00
Cache hit price
#299 of 322
$0.50
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#314 of 473
200k
tokens (~300 pages)
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 — Anthropic
Quality
#8 of 65
93based on 5 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#173 of 339
47.7
Output tokens per second
Price
#407 of 439
$10.00
Blended per 1M tokens
In $5.00 · Out $25.00
Cache hit price
#296 of 322
$0.50
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#147 of 473
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 scores 72 and Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 scores 93 — a 20-point lead for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7. They share 5 published evaluations, with Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 ahead on 0 and Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 ahead on 5.

Blended pricing is $10.00 per 1M tokens for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 and $10.00 for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7, within 10% of each other.

Throughput is 47 tokens per second for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 and 48 for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7, with time to first token at 1.4s and 1.2s. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 accepts 200k tokens of context against 1.00M.

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 is proprietary; Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 is proprietary. 5 tracked hosts serve one or both, and 5 serve both.

Generated from tracked data on 3 Sep 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.5Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7
Known Good Index 72 based on 5 of 7 evaluations 93 based on 5 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $10.00 $10.00
Output tok/s 47 48
Context window 200k 1.00M
Providers 5 5
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.5Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7
Known Good Index 72 93
Coding Index 80 97
Reasoning Index 58 86
Openness Index 5 5
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 · marker = Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond86 / 90
Mock AIME 2024–2586 / 98
SWE-bench Verified77 / 83
Humanity's Last Exam14 / 36
Terminal-Bench63 / 80

Right-hand figures read Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 / Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 leads on 0 of 5, Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 on 5.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.5Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7
Text Arena 1,450 1,483
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,469 1,494
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.5Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7
Input $/1M $5.00 $5.00
Output $/1M $25.00 $25.00
Blended $/1M $10.00 $10.00
Cache read $/1M $0.500 $0.500
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.5Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7
Context window 200k 1.00M
Max output tokens 64k 128k
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Speed & Latency

Mean throughput and time to first token across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Throughput and latency

Means across all tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.5Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7
Output tokens/s 47 48
Time to first token 1.4s 1.2s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

5 hosts · 5 serve both
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 blendedAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 tok/s Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 blendedAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 tok/s
Azure · first party $10.00 135 $10.00 —
Amazon Bedrock · first party $10.00 87 $10.00 39
Claude Platform on AWS $10.00 77 $10.00 45
Anthropic · first party $10.00 40 $10.00 51
Google · first party $10.00 5 $10.00 73

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →