The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 vs Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 ·Anthropic vs Anthropic

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 vs Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 — head-to-head comparison

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 profile Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 profile All comparisons
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 — Anthropic
Quality
#4 of 61
94based on 5 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#158 of 316
52.4
Output tokens per second
Price
#314 of 340
$10.00
Blended per 1M tokens
In $5.00 · Out $25.00
Cache hit price
#185 of 206
$0.50
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#83 of 345
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 — Anthropic
Quality
#17 of 61
80based on 4 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#197 of 316
41.2
Output tokens per second
Price
#301 of 340
$6.00
Blended per 1M tokens
In $3.00 · Out $15.00
Cache hit price
#165 of 206
$0.30
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#55 of 345
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 scores 94 and Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores 80 — a 14-point lead for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7. They share 4 published evaluations, with Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 ahead on 4 and Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 ahead on 0.

Blended pricing is $10.00 per 1M tokens for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 and $6.00 for Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 — Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 is about 1.7× cheaper.

Throughput is 52 tokens per second for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 and 41 for Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6, with time to first token at 1.4s and 1.6s. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 accepts 1.00M tokens of context against 1.00M.

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 is proprietary; Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 is proprietary. 4 tracked hosts serve one or both, and 4 serve both.

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At a glance
MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
Known Good Index 94 based on 5 of 6 evaluations 80 based on 4 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M $10.00 $6.00
Output tok/s 52 41
Context window 1.00M 1.00M
Providers 4 4
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

IndicesComponents
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 4.7Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
Known Good Index 94 80
Coding Index 100 71
Mathematics Index 98 86
Science Index 95 91
Reasoning Index 86
Agentic Index 100 71
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 4.7 · marker = Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond90 / 87
MATH / AIME98 / 86
SWE-bench Verified83 / 75
Terminal-Bench90 / 53

Right-hand figures read Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 / Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 leads on 4 of 4, Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 on 0.

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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 4.7Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
Text Arena 1,482 1,458
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,494 1,473
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Per token typeCache discount
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 4.7Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
Input $/1M $5.00 $3.00
Output $/1M $25.00 $15.00
Blended $/1M $10.00 $6.00
Cache read $/1M $0.500 $0.300
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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 4.7Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
Context window 1.00M 1.00M
Max output tokens 128k 128k
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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
Output tokens/s 52 41
Time to first token 1.4s 1.6s
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Providers

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

4 hosts · 4 serve both
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 blendedAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 tok/s Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 blendedAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 tok/s
Google · first party $10.00 70 $6.00 41
Anthropic · first party $10.00 45 $6.00 38
Amazon Bedrock · first party $10.00 17 $6.00 41
Azure · first party $10.00 $6.00

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

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