Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 on 16 April 2026, an upgrade to Opus 4.6 for software engineering. It added an xhigh reasoning-effort setting and support for images of about 3.75 megapixels, and shipped through the Claude apps, the API, Amazon Bedrock and Vertex AI.

Why it mattered Pricing held at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, keeping Anthropic’s flagship on a roughly bimonthly upgrade cycle at a steady price.