Claude Opus 5 vs Claude Opus 4.7

  • Claude Opus 5 rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1508 against 1490.
  • They cost about the same: $5 / $25 and $5 / $25 per million input / output tokens.
  • On the 9 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Claude Opus 5 wins 9 and Claude Opus 4.7 wins 0.
LMArena text rating over time
14601470148014901500Apr 26Jun 26Jul 26Sep 26Oct 26
LatestClaude Opus 4.7 1490

Side by side

Models (2/6)
  • Claude Opus 5
  • Claude Opus 4.7
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Claude Opus 4.7
The model
LabAnthropicAnthropic
Released2026-07-242026-04-16
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 answer1508#4 of 3511490#13 of 351
LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one1691#9 of 1241558#41 of 124
LMArena VisionSide-by-side votes on prompts that include an image1320#3 of 1461317#5 of 146
LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code1533#4 of 3461518#9 of 346
LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts1533#2 of 3391498#17 of 339
LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing1495#5 of 3491486#11 of 349
LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts1527#4 of 3511506#11 of 351
LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow1518#5 of 3511498#9 of 351
Vals AI, coding
Terminal-Bench 4.0Frontier-difficulty tasks an agent completes in a real terminal53.53%#9 of 55—
SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects97.00%#1 of 8582.00%#21 of 85
Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works88.40%#9 of 11571.00%#41 of 115
LiveCodeBenchFresh competitive programming problems, collected after models’ training cut-offs to avoid contamination89.03%#4 of 14385.07%#36 of 143
Vals AI, finance
Tax Agent BenchAgentic research into US corporate tax questions45.55%#4 of 7623.74%#43 of 76
Vals AI, law
Legal Research BenchAgentic US legal research55.29%#2 of 8538.46%#35 of 85
Vals AI, medicine
MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes63.57%#1 of 10754.86%#7 of 107
Vals AI, reasoning
GPQA DiamondGraduate-level questions in biology, physics and chemistry that experts answer well and search does not93.43%#8 of 13890.15%#26 of 138
MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering91.59%#2 of 13889.87%#8 of 138
AIMEProblems from the American Invitational Mathematics Examination, a qualifier for the US Math Olympiad—96.25%#7 of 96
MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text89.88%#2 of 9385.55%#24 of 93
Terminal-Bench ScienceExpert-written scientific research workflows, run by an agent in a terminal27.14%#9 of 42—

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Questions

Which is better, Claude Opus 5 or Claude Opus 4.7?

Claude Opus 5 rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1508 against 1490. They cost about the same: $5 / $25 and $5 / $25 per million input / output tokens. On the 9 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Claude Opus 5 wins 9 and Claude Opus 4.7 wins 0.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 5 or Claude Opus 4.7?

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

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