Claude Opus 4.7, released April 16, 2026, is Anthropic's most capable generally available model — delivering meaningful gains in agentic execution, long-horizon reasoning, and vision over Opus 4.6, at the same price point.
Architecture Deep Dive → Claude Opus 4.7 Architecture Breakdown — task budgets mechanism, xhigh effort level, enhanced vision pipeline, and how it compares to Opus 4.6.
Why It's in Adopt
Opus 4.7 is the right choice when task complexity and reliability matter more than cost. It extends the agentic strengths of Opus 4.6 with three concrete improvements for autonomous workflows:
- Task budgets: Prevents unbounded token consumption in agentic loops — give Claude a token target for the entire loop (thinking, tools, output) and it adapts its strategy to finish gracefully within budget. In public beta on the API.
- xhigh effort level: New top-tier reasoning effort that spends significantly more internal tokens on complex problems — use for coding and agentic tasks where quality matters more than latency.
- Enhanced vision: Processes images at up to 3.75 megapixels — more than 3x the resolution of Opus 4.6 — enabling reliable interpretation of dense diagrams, screenshots, and technical drawings.
- Stronger agentic execution: More reliable multi-step task completion, improved long-horizon reasoning, and better handling of ambiguous instructions across sessions.
In Claude Code, Opus 4.7 carries context across sessions and handles ambiguity more reliably in long-running autonomous tasks.
Performance
| Benchmark | Opus 4.7 | Opus 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 87.6% | 80.8% |
| SWE-bench Pro | 64.3% | 53.4% |
| GPQA Diamond | 94.2% | 91.3% |
| AIME | 98 | 93.3 |
Anthropic acknowledges that the unreleased Claude Mythos model surpasses Opus 4.7 — positioning 4.7 as the current production-ready ceiling, not the absolute frontier.
When to Use Opus 4.7 vs Sonnet 4.6
| Use Sonnet 4.6 | Use Opus 4.7 |
|---|---|
| Most coding tasks | Complex multi-step autonomous agents |
| Routine code generation | Long-horizon agentic workflows |
| Cost-sensitive production usage | Tasks requiring xhigh reasoning effort |
| Batch processing at scale | High-resolution image analysis |
| SWE-bench-class coding challenges |
Pricing
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Input | $5 per million tokens |
| Output | $25 per million tokens |
| Context window | 1,000,000 tokens |
| Prompt caching | Up to 90% savings on repeated context |
| Batch processing | 50% savings for async tasks |
Pricing is unchanged from Opus 4.6.
How to Access
- Claude.ai — available on Pro and higher plans
- Anthropic API —
claude-opus-4-7model ID - Amazon Bedrock — available at GA
- Google Cloud Vertex AI — available at GA
- Microsoft Foundry — available at GA
- GitHub Copilot — rolling out as of April 16, 2026
Key Characteristics
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| License | Proprietary |
| Context window | 1,000,000 tokens (1M) |
| Pricing | $5/M input, $25/M output |
| Provider | Anthropic |
| API model ID | claude-opus-4-7 |
| Release date | April 16, 2026 |