Claude Opus 4.6 vs Claude Opus 4.7 (2026-04-16)

Name: Claude Opus 4.7 (2026-04-16)
Brand: Anthropic
Price: 5.000000 USD

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Claude Opus 4.7 (2026-04-16): Claude Opus 4.6 is cheaper by 0% on average. Claude Opus 4.6 from Azure AI Foundry (200,000-token context, reasoning, tool calls) vs. Claude Opus 4.7 (2026-04-16) from Anthropic (1,000,000-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.

Input tokens / request3,000

01,000,000

Output tokens / request400

0128,000

Requests / day5,000

01,000,000

Claude Opus 4.6

Azure AI Foundry

$3,805/mo

Input $5.00/M · Output $25.00/M

Claude Opus 4.7 (2026-04-16)Cheaper

Anthropic

$3,805/mo

Input $5.00/M · Output $25.00/M

At this workload, Claude Opus 4.7 (2026-04-16) is 0% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.6 — a savings of $0.000000/month ($0.000000/year).

Production recipe — Agent Command Center

strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
  model: claude-opus-4-7-20260416
  provider: anthropic
fallback:
  model: claude-opus-4-6
  provider: azure-ai-foundry
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 }   # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live

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	Claude Opus 4.6 Azure AI Foundry	Claude Opus 4.7 (2026-04-16) Anthropic
Input price	$5.00/M	$5.00/M
Output price	$25.00/M	$25.00/M
Context window	200,000	1,000,000
Max output	128,000	128,000
Function calling	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio input	—	—
Reasoning	✓	✓
Prompt caching	✓	✓
Structured output	✓	✓
Pricing verified	May 12, 2026	May 12, 2026