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Claude Opus 4.7 vs o4

Anthropic vs OpenAI. Specs, benchmarks, and real per-task cost — all in one page.

Verdict

o4 is ~1.1× cheaper on a 3:1 input:output blend.

Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.7

Anthropic’s frontier reasoning model. Leads SWE-Bench and holds top ranks on long-context coding and agentic workflows.

Best-in-class coding agent behaviorStrong instruction following1M-token context with high recallHigh reliability under tool use
OpenAI
o4

Deep-reasoning model. Spends more tokens thinking to crush math, science, and hard coding problems.

State-of-the-art math and scienceExtremely high-ceiling reasoning
Pricing
Input / 1M$15.00$15.00
Output / 1M$75.00$60.00
Context1.0M200K
Max output64K100K
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Released2026-03-122026-02-18
Benchmarks
LMSYS ELO1412.0
MMLU Pro92.893.8
HumanEval94.492.3
SWE-Bench72.168.0
MATH89.396.2
GPQA66.482.5
MMMU79.2
IFEval92.1
Per-task cost
Summarize a 1-hour meeting transcript$0.263$0.255
Review a 500-line pull request$0.270$0.240
Answer a customer support ticket$0.105$0.093
Extract structured data from a resume$0.150$0.135
Debug a stack trace with context$0.240$0.210

Per-call cost using published token counts for each task. Real-world prompts vary.