Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2024-06-20) vs Claude Opus 4.7
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2024-06-20) vs Claude Opus 4.7: Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2024-06-20) is cheaper by 40% on average. Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2024-06-20) from Anthropic (200,000-token context, tool calls) vs. Claude Opus 4.7 from Azure AI Foundry (200,000-token context, reasoning, tool calls). Use Agent Command Center to A/B both in shadow mode and pick the winner per workload.
Side-by-side cost
Live workload comparison
Same workload run through both models. The cheaper one is highlighted.
3,000
0200,000
400
0128,000
5,000
01,000,000
At this workload, Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2024-06-20) is 40% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.7 — a savings of $1,522/month ($18,263/year).
Production recipe — Agent Command Center
strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
model: claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620
provider: anthropic
fallback:
model: claude-opus-4-7
provider: azure-ai-foundry
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 } # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live| Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2024-06-20) | Claude Opus 4.7 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $3.00/M | $5.00/M |
| Output price | $15.00/M | $25.00/M |
| Context window | 200,000 | 200,000 |
| Max output | 8,192 | 128,000 |
| Function calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio input | — | — |
| Reasoning | — | ✓ |
| Prompt caching | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pricing verified | May 7, 2026 | May 12, 2026 |
Benchmark comparison
Side-by-side public benchmark scores. Greener bar = winner.
Chatbot Arena ELOgeneral
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2024-06-20)
—
Claude Opus 4.7
1,491
GPQA Diamondreasoning
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2024-06-20)
—
Claude Opus 4.7
94.2%
MMLUgeneral
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2024-06-20)
88.7%
Claude Opus 4.7
—
SWE-bench Verifiedagent
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2024-06-20)
—
Claude Opus 4.7
87.6%
Humanity's Last Examreasoning
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2024-06-20)
—
Claude Opus 4.7
46.9%