Claude Opus 4.6 vs Claude Opus 4.7

  • Claude Opus 4.6 rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1502 against 1490.
  • They cost about the same: $5 / $25 and $5 / $25 per million input / output tokens.
  • On the 8 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Claude Opus 4.6 wins 0 and Claude Opus 4.7 wins 8.
LMArena text rating over time
14601475149015051520Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Aug 26Oct 26
LatestClaude Opus 4.6 1502Claude Opus 4.7 1490

Side by side

Models (2/6)
  • Claude Opus 4.6
  • Claude Opus 4.7
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Claude Opus 4.7
The model
LabAnthropicAnthropic
Released2026-02-042026-04-16
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M1M
Input, per 1M tokens$5$5
Output, per 1M tokens$25$25
LMArena, people’s votes
LMArena TextMillions of people compare two anonymous models side by side and vote for the better answer1502#6 of 3511490#13 of 351
LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one1546#45 of 1241558#41 of 124
LMArena VisionSide-by-side votes on prompts that include an image1316#6 of 1461317#5 of 146
LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code1534#3 of 3461518#9 of 346
LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts1518#7 of 3391498#17 of 339
LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing1505#4 of 3491486#11 of 349
LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts1524#5 of 3511506#11 of 351
LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow1521#3 of 3511498#9 of 351
Vals AI, coding
SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects78.20%#30 of 8582.00%#21 of 85
Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works53.50%#57 of 11571.00%#41 of 115
LiveCodeBenchFresh competitive programming problems, collected after models’ training cut-offs to avoid contamination84.68%#38 of 14385.07%#36 of 143
Vals AI, finance
Tax Agent BenchAgentic research into US corporate tax questions—23.74%#43 of 76
Vals AI, law
Legal Research BenchAgentic US legal research—38.46%#35 of 85
Vals AI, medicine
MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes48.24%#30 of 10754.86%#7 of 107
MedQAMedical licensing exam questions, measured on accuracy and on robustness to bias95.41%#12 of 92—
Vals AI, reasoning
GPQA DiamondGraduate-level questions in biology, physics and chemistry that experts answer well and search does not89.65%#29 of 13890.15%#26 of 138
MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering89.11%#15 of 13889.87%#8 of 138
AIMEProblems from the American Invitational Mathematics Examination, a qualifier for the US Math Olympiad95.63%#9 of 9696.25%#7 of 96
MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text83.87%#29 of 9385.55%#24 of 93

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Questions

Which is better, Claude Opus 4.6 or Claude Opus 4.7?

Claude Opus 4.6 rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1502 against 1490. They cost about the same: $5 / $25 and $5 / $25 per million input / output tokens. On the 8 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Claude Opus 4.6 wins 0 and Claude Opus 4.7 wins 8.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.6 or Claude Opus 4.7?

They cost about the same: $5 / $25 and $5 / $25 per million input / output tokens.

Sources

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