Claude 3 Haiku (2024-03-07) vs Claude Opus 4.7

Claude 3 Haiku (2024-03-07) vs Claude Opus 4.7: Claude 3 Haiku (2024-03-07) is cheaper by 95% on average. Claude 3 Haiku (2024-03-07) 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
Anthropic
$190/mo
Input $0.250/M · Output $1.25/M
Azure AI Foundry
$3,805/mo
Input $5.00/M · Output $25.00/M
At this workload, Claude 3 Haiku (2024-03-07) is 95% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.7 — a savings of $3,614/month ($43,373/year).
Production recipe — Agent Command Center
strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
  model: claude-3-haiku-20240307
  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 Haiku (2024-03-07) Claude Opus 4.7
Input price $0.250/M $5.00/M
Output price $1.25/M $25.00/M
Context window 200,000 200,000
Max output 4,096 128,000
Function calling
Vision
Audio input
Reasoning
Prompt caching
Structured output
Pricing verified May 12, 2026 May 12, 2026
Cheaper option
~95% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.7
Larger context
200,000 tokens
More capabilities
5 of 6 capability flags advertised

Benchmark comparison

Side-by-side public benchmark scores. Greener bar = winner.

Chatbot Arena ELOgeneral
Claude 3 Haiku (2024-03-07)
Claude Opus 4.7
1,491
GPQA Diamondreasoning
Claude 3 Haiku (2024-03-07)
Claude Opus 4.7
94.2%
MMMUmultimodal
Claude 3 Haiku (2024-03-07)
Claude Opus 4.7
91.5%
SWE-bench Verifiedagent
Claude 3 Haiku (2024-03-07)
Claude Opus 4.7
87.6%
MMLUgeneral
Claude 3 Haiku (2024-03-07)
75.2%
Claude Opus 4.7
SWE-benchagent
Claude 3 Haiku (2024-03-07)
Claude Opus 4.7
64.3%
Humanity's Last Examreasoning
Claude 3 Haiku (2024-03-07)
Claude Opus 4.7
46.9%