Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05) vs Claude Opus 4.7

Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05) vs Claude Opus 4.7: Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05) is cheaper by 0% on average. Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05) from Anthropic (1,000,000-token context, reasoning, 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
01,000,000
400
0128,000
5,000
01,000,000
Anthropic
$3,805/mo
Input $5.00/M · Output $25.00/M
Azure AI Foundry
$3,805/mo
Input $5.00/M · Output $25.00/M
At this workload, Claude Opus 4.7 is 0% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05) — a savings of $0.000000/month ($0.000000/year).
Production recipe — Agent Command Center
strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
  model: claude-opus-4-7
  provider: azure-ai-foundry
fallback:
  model: claude-opus-4-6-20260205
  provider: anthropic
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 }   # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live
Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05) Claude Opus 4.7
Input price $5.00/M $5.00/M
Output price $25.00/M $25.00/M
Context window 1,000,000 200,000
Max output 128,000 128,000
Function calling
Vision
Audio input
Reasoning
Prompt caching
Structured output
Pricing verified May 12, 2026 May 12, 2026
Larger context
1,000,000 tokens
More capabilities
5 of 6 capability flags advertised

Benchmark comparison

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

Chatbot Arena ELOgeneral
Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05)
1,498
Claude Opus 4.7
1,491
GPQA Diamondreasoning
Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05)
Claude Opus 4.7
94.2%
MMMUmultimodal
Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05)
Claude Opus 4.7
91.5%
SWE-bench Verifiedagent
Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05)
Claude Opus 4.7
87.6%
SWE-benchagent
Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05)
Claude Opus 4.7
64.3%
Humanity's Last Examreasoning
Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05)
Claude Opus 4.7
46.9%