First token counts reveal Opus 4.7 costs significantly more than 4.6 despite Anthropic's flat pricing
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Anthropic's Opus 4.7, while maintaining the same price as its predecessor, Opus 4.6, has been found to consume significantly more tokens per request. Measurements indicate an increase of up to 37.4% in token usage, leading to higher costs for users. Despite this increase, Opus 4.7 offers slightly better instruction following, with a 5% improvement over version 4.6.
Key Points
Opus 4.7 uses 37.4% more tokens per request compared to 4.6.
Costs per session can increase from $6.65 to between $7.86 and $8.76.
Instruction following improved by 5% in Opus 4.7 over its predecessor.
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