Claude Opus 4.7 vs Opus 4.6: Is the Upgrade Worth It?

Feature Claude Opus 4.7 Claude Opus 4.6
Developer Anthropic Anthropic
Released 2026-04-16 2026-02-05
Input Price $5/1M tokens $5/1M tokens
Output Price $25/1M tokens $25/1M tokens
Context Window 1M tokens 1M tokens
Output Tokens 128K 128K
Thinking Mode Adaptive thinking — xhigh effort default Adaptive thinking — high effort default
Multimodal Yes — 3.75MP / 2,576px Yes — 1.15MP / 1,568px
API Available Yes — Claude.ai, API, Bedrock, Vertex AI, Foundry, GitHub Copilot Yes — all platforms
Best For Complex autonomous coding, large codebase refactoring, vision-heavy workflows, multi-session agentic tasks, enterprise instruction precision Stable production workloads, agentic web research, teams with prompts tuned to loose instruction following, workflows not yet benchmarked on new tokenizer
SWE-Bench Verified 87.6% 80.8%
SWE-Bench Pro 64.3% 53.4%
CursorBench 70% 58%
Terminal-Bench 2.0 69.4% 65.4%
MCP-Atlas 77.3% 75.8%
OSWorld-Verified 78.0% 72.7%
CharXiv Visual Reasoning +13% over 4.6 Baseline
XBOW Visual Acuity 98.5% 54.5%
BrowseComp (Agentic Search) Regression Stronger

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