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Claude Opus 4.6 vs Claude Opus 4.7

The readout for Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Opus 4.7, before the detailed comparison sheet.

Model A

Claude Opus 4.6

Anthropic

Contender
vs

Model B

Claude Opus 4.7

Anthropic

Leading

Key Takeaways

Weighted outcome: Claude Opus 4.7. Benchmark capability categories carry 80%, while price, API performance, and availability carry 20%.

Decision read

Claude Opus 4.7

Claude Opus 4.7 has the higher weighted result; Model A / B score 36.7 to 63.3.

Evidence depth

124 data points

Includes 30 benchmark rows, 0 audit samples, and 10 provider examples.

Selection signal

Start with Claude Opus 4.7

The charts below split 40 high-signal samples across speed, scores, and audit health.

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Comparison sheet

This report only uses LMSpeed data for Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Opus 4.7: pricing, speed aggregates, third-party benchmark scores, and shared provider samples.

Model compare
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Overall leaderContenderLeading
Weighted overall score36.7 pts63.3 pts
Benchmark category leads2 categories4 categories
Operational advantagesFree providers, Provider coverageAverage speed, First-token latency
Context window1M tokens1M tokens
Max output128K tokens128K tokens
Modalities

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Text inputImage inputFile inputText outputTool callingStructured outputsJSON modeReasoning
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The overall result weights benchmark capability categories at 80% and price, API speed/latency, and availability at 20%. Recent test volume does not affect the winner, and missing benchmark categories are excluded.

Model metadata

Model compare
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
DeveloperAnthropicAnthropic
ReleasedFeb 2026May 2026
ParametersNo dataNo data
TokenizerClaudeClaude
Knowledge cutoffNo dataNo data
OpenRouter IDanthropic/claude-opus-4.6anthropic/claude-opus-4.7
ReferencesNo dataNo data

When to choose each model

This report only uses LMSpeed data for Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Opus 4.7: pricing, speed aggregates, third-party benchmark scores, and shared provider samples.

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6 is stronger in benchmark categories (Agents, Instruction following) and operational dimensions (Free providers, Provider coverage).

Claude Opus 4.7

Claude Opus 4.7 is stronger in benchmark categories (Coding, Reasoning, Knowledge, Math) and operational dimensions (Average speed, First-token latency).

Benchmark score comparison

Third-party benchmark profile synced into LMSpeed; only metrics available for both models are shown.

Category performance

Compare benchmark category scores on a 0-100 scale. Select a category to inspect the gap.

Model A coverage
8 / 8
Model B coverage
6 / 8
Shared
6 shared categories

Avg. score

Claude Opus 4.6

51.8

Avg. score

Claude Opus 4.7

53.5

Agents

Claude Opus 4.6 leads by 0.6

Claude Opus 4.654.3
Claude Opus 4.753.7

Coding

Claude Opus 4.7 leads by 1.9

Claude Opus 4.656.6
Claude Opus 4.758.5

Reasoning

Claude Opus 4.7 leads by 1.4

Claude Opus 4.653.4
Claude Opus 4.754.8

Knowledge

Claude Opus 4.7 leads by 0.3

Claude Opus 4.653.3
Claude Opus 4.753.6

Math

Claude Opus 4.7 leads by 0.3

Claude Opus 4.655.7
Claude Opus 4.756

Multilingual

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.648.4
Claude Opus 4.7-

Multimodal

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.647.8
Claude Opus 4.7-

Instruction following

Claude Opus 4.6 leads by 0.3

Claude Opus 4.644.8
Claude Opus 4.744.5

Professional benchmark details

Metric-level scores with benchmark source, rank depth, confidence, error, and evaluation date where available.

Aggregatereported

BenchLM overall score

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

62.0

Rank #41/111 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+4.0

Claude Opus 4.7

winner

66.0

Rank #32/111 · confidence 1 · eval date 2026-04-16

Pricingverified

Input price

SourceClaude Opus 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)

Claude Opus 4.6

$5.00/M

Rank #168/186 · confidence 4

$0.0000/M

Claude Opus 4.7

$5.00/M

Rank #168/186 · confidence 4

Pricingverified

Blended price

SourceClaude Opus 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)

Claude Opus 4.6

$10.00/M

Rank #169/186 · confidence 4

$0.0000/M

Claude Opus 4.7

$10.00/M

Rank #169/186 · confidence 4

Pricingverified

Output price

SourceClaude Opus 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)

Claude Opus 4.6

$25.00/M

Rank #169/186 · confidence 4

$0.0000/M

Claude Opus 4.7

$25.00/M

Rank #169/186 · confidence 4

Reasoningverified

GPQA

SourceClaude Opus 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)

Claude Opus 4.6

84.0%

Rank #75/218 · confidence 4

+7.4%

Claude Opus 4.7

winner

91.4%

Rank #22/218 · confidence 4

Reasoningverified

HLE

SourceClaude Opus 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)

Claude Opus 4.6

19.1%

Rank #89/216 · confidence 4

+23.2%

Claude Opus 4.7

winner

42.3%

Rank #24/216 · confidence 4

Reasoningreported

CritPt

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

2.8

Rank #57/88 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+2.3

Claude Opus 4.7

winner

5.1

Rank #47/88 · confidence 1 · eval date 2026-04-16

Reasoningreported

AA-LCR

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

67.0

Rank #71/106 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+5.3

Claude Opus 4.7

winner

72.3

Rank #58/106 · confidence 1 · eval date 2026-04-16

Codingreported

Vibe Code Bench

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

57.6

Rank #5/33 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+13.4

Claude Opus 4.7

winner

71.0

Rank #1/33 · confidence 1 · eval date 2026-04-16

Codingreported

React Native Evals

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

84.1

Rank #3/12 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+1.3

Claude Opus 4.7

82.8

Rank #4/12 · confidence 1 · eval date 2026-04-16

Codingreported

FrontierCode 1.1 Main

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

26.9

Rank #10/11 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+11.6

Claude Opus 4.7

winner

38.5

Rank #8/11 · confidence 1 · eval date 2026-04-16

Codingreported

BenchLM Coding score

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

50.3

Rank #54/87 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+13.0

Claude Opus 4.7

winner

63.3

Rank #18/87 · confidence 1 · eval date 2026-04-16

Codingreported

AA-SciCode

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

45.7

Rank #54/113 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+4.4

Claude Opus 4.7

winner

50.1

Rank #34/113 · confidence 1 · eval date 2026-04-16

Mathreported

FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

40.7

Rank #10/47 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+3.1

Claude Opus 4.7

winner

43.8

Rank #9/47 · confidence 1 · eval date 2026-04-16

Mathreported

FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4)

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

22.9

Rank #11/36 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+0.0

Claude Opus 4.7

winner

22.9

Rank #10/36 · confidence 1 · eval date 2026-04-16

Mathreported

BenchLM Math score

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

58.6

Rank #29/63 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+3.1

Claude Opus 4.7

winner

61.7

Rank #28/63 · confidence 1 · eval date 2026-04-16

Knowledgereported

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

26.4

Rank #57/117 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+17.5

Claude Opus 4.7

winner

43.9

Rank #14/117 · confidence 1 · eval date 2026-04-16

Knowledgereported

BenchLM Knowledge score

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

79.8

Rank #15/83 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+14.3

Claude Opus 4.7

65.5

Rank #49/83 · confidence 1 · eval date 2026-04-16

Knowledgereported

AA-Omniscience Accuracy

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

45.8

Rank #23/106 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+1.1

Claude Opus 4.7

44.7

Rank #26/106 · confidence 1 · eval date 2026-04-16

Knowledgereported

AA-Omniscience Index

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

2.4

Rank #36/45 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+12.4

Claude Opus 4.7

winner

14.8

Rank #23/45 · confidence 1 · eval date 2026-04-16

Knowledgereported

AA-GPQA Diamond

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

84.0

Rank #67/113 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+4.5

Claude Opus 4.7

winner

88.5

Rank #43/113 · confidence 1 · eval date 2026-04-16

Knowledgereported

AA-HLE

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

19.1

Rank #74/114 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+14.2

Claude Opus 4.7

winner

33.3

Rank #43/114 · confidence 1 · eval date 2026-04-16

Knowledgereported

AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

80.1

Rank #43/106 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+26.0

Claude Opus 4.7

54.1

Rank #70/106 · confidence 1 · eval date 2026-04-16

Multimodalreported

Design Arena Website

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

1306.0

Rank #14/78 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+1.0

Claude Opus 4.7

winner

1307.0

Rank #13/78 · confidence 1 · eval date 2026-04-16

Multimodalreported

AA-MMMU-Pro

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

72.5

Rank #45/68 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+3.9

Claude Opus 4.7

winner

76.4

Rank #27/68 · confidence 1 · eval date 2026-04-16

Instruction followingreported

AA-IFBench

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

44.6

Rank #59/84 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+1.0

Claude Opus 4.7

43.6

Rank #61/84 · confidence 1 · eval date 2026-04-16

Agentsreported

ResearchClawBench

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

19.9

Rank #4/18 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+0.8

Claude Opus 4.7

winner

20.7

Rank #2/18 · confidence 1 · eval date 2026-04-16

Agentsreported

Gert Labs

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

61.9

Rank #10/49 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+3.7

Claude Opus 4.7

winner

65.6

Rank #3/49 · confidence 1 · eval date 2026-04-16

Agentsreported

BenchLM Agentic score

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

63.5

Rank #36/76 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+6.9

Claude Opus 4.7

winner

70.4

Rank #30/76 · confidence 1 · eval date 2026-04-16

Agentsreported

τ²-bench results

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

84.8

Rank #46/82 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+10.8

Claude Opus 4.7

74.0

Rank #59/82 · confidence 1 · eval date 2026-04-16

API audit comparison

Latest completed audits from shared providers, with four safety and integrity score groups plus report links.

Provider
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
No completed audits are available from shared providers yet.

Provider examples

Speed aggregates and input/output pricing share each provider row for real API selection and migration cost checks.

Provider
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Kunkunout API20 tests

Claude Opus 4.6

speed / latency

40 tok/s / 16141ms

input / output

No data

Claude Opus 4.7

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

钠 API20 tests

Claude Opus 4.6

speed / latency

42 tok/s / 2282ms

input / output

No data

Claude Opus 4.7

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

Aitoke15 tests

Claude Opus 4.6

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

Claude Opus 4.7

speed / latency

35 tok/s / 2753ms

input / output

No data

ApiToken Online15 tests

Claude Opus 4.6

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

Claude Opus 4.7

speed / latency

38 tok/s / 3322ms

input / output

No data

Rnglg2 API15 tests

Claude Opus 4.6

speed / latency

57 tok/s / 3926ms

input / output

No data

Claude Opus 4.7

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

兔子API

Claude Opus 4.6

claude-opus-4-6-high

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/request

Claude Opus 4.7

claude-opus-4-7

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/request

我不是AI神

Claude Opus 4.6

claude-opus-4-6

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/M/$0/M

Claude Opus 4.7

claude-opus-4-7

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/M/$0/M

熊猫 API

Claude Opus 4.6

熊猫-特供-按量-满血逆-claude-opus-4-6

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.015/M/$0.076/M

Claude Opus 4.7

熊猫-特供-按量-满血逆-claude-opus-4-7

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.015/M/$0.076/M

KFCV50

Claude Opus 4.6

claude-opus-4-6

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.017/request

Claude Opus 4.7

claude-opus-4-7

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.017/request

PoloAPI

Claude Opus 4.6

claude-opus-4-6-c

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.027/request

Claude Opus 4.7

claude-opus-4-7-c

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.027/request

FAQ

Weighted outcome: Claude Opus 4.7. Benchmark capability categories carry 80%, while price, API performance, and availability carry 20%.

Why is this comparison indexable?
It has 6 verifiable comparison points, and both models have pricing or benchmark data.
Are missing metrics invented?
No. Metrics without LMSpeed data are omitted from this report.

Rankings are based on community-submitted tests and periodic health probes. Advisory only, not official data.