Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.7 at Unchanged Pricing
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 on April 16, 2026, holding pricing at $5/$25 per million tokens. SWE-bench Verified rises from 80.8% to 87.6%, visual reasoning (CharXiv) jumps from 69.1% to 82.1%, and the image input ceiling triples to 3.75 MP. A new xhigh reasoning effort tier launches between high and max, with Claude Code defaulting to xhigh. Anthropic discloses it deliberately degraded cyber-offense capability during training — the first frontier-lab admission of intentional capability throttling as a safety control.
Why It Matters
The price hold plus measurable gains on coding, vision, and reasoning deliver an upgrade with no budget impact. The new tokenizer consumes up to 1.35× more tokens for identical inputs — recalibrate budgets and retune prompts before switching production traffic, as instruction-following is now more literal.