Claude Opus 4.7 Pricing: The Real Cost Story Behind the “Unchanged” Price Tag
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Claude Opus 4.7 launched with the same sticker price as Opus 4.6 ($5/$25 per million input/output tokens), but ships with a new tokenizer that can produce up to 35% more tokens for identical input text. This means real per-request costs can rise significantly even though the rate card is unchanged. The post breaks down the
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Claude Opus 4.7 pricing at a glanceThe tokenizer change, and what it actually meansOpus 4.7 vs the rest of the Claude lineupCost projections: three realistic workloadsPrompt caching and batch processing, the levers that matterRate limits, availability, and migration notesShould you upgrade from Opus 4.6 to 4.7?Frequently asked questionsThe bottom lineSourcesSort: