Claude Opus 4.7 vs Claude Sonnet 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7 vs Claude Sonnet 4.6: Claude Sonnet 4.6 is cheaper by 40% on average. Claude Opus 4.7 from Azure AI Foundry (200,000-token context, reasoning, tool calls) vs. Claude Sonnet 4.6 from Azure AI Foundry (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.
3,000
01,000,000
400
0128,000
5,000
01,000,000
At this workload, Claude Sonnet 4.6 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-sonnet-4-6
provider: azure-ai-foundry
fallback:
model: claude-opus-4-7
provider: azure-ai-foundry
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 } # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live| Claude Opus 4.7 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $5.00/M | $3.00/M |
| Output price | $25.00/M | $15.00/M |
| Context window | 200,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Max output | 128,000 | 64,000 |
| Function calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio input | — | — |
| Reasoning | ✓ | ✓ |
| Prompt caching | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pricing verified | May 12, 2026 | May 12, 2026 |
Benchmark comparison
Side-by-side public benchmark scores. Greener bar = winner.
Chatbot Arena ELOgeneral
Claude Opus 4.7
1,491
Claude Sonnet 4.6
1,466
GPQA Diamondreasoning
Claude Opus 4.7
94.2%
Claude Sonnet 4.6
89.9%
SWE-bench Verifiedagent
Claude Opus 4.7
87.6%
Claude Sonnet 4.6
79.6%
Humanity's Last Examreasoning⚠ different settings
Claude Opus 4.7
46.9%
Claude Sonnet 4.6
33.2%