Claude Opus 4.7
v20260416Anthropic
Previous-generation Opus flagship, superseded by Opus 4.8. 64.3% SWE-Bench Pro and 94.2% GPQA Diamond at launch. First Claude with high-resolution vision (2576px long edge, pixel-accurate coordinates), task budgets (beta), and the xhigh effort level.
Trust Vector Analysis
Dimension Breakdown
🚀Performance & Reliability+
Was Anthropic's most capable model at launch (2026-04-16); now the previous-generation Opus behind Opus 4.8. Remains a strong, fully supported flagship-class choice, especially for vision-heavy workloads.
Industry-standard coding benchmarks measuring real-world software engineering tasks
Graduate and PhD-level reasoning benchmarks evaluated with adaptive thinking at high effort
Comprehensive knowledge and multimodal testing, including high-resolution screenshot and document understanding
Repeated-run consistency testing across effort levels; structured extraction pipelines
Median latency for API requests with standard prompt sizes
95th percentile response time across diverse workloads
Official specification from provider
Historical uptime data from official status page
🛡️Security+
Introduced real-time cybersecurity safeguards to the Opus line. Strong overall posture carried forward into Opus 4.8.
Testing against OWASP LLM01 prompt injection attacks
Testing against adversarial prompt datasets
Analysis of privacy policies and data handling practices
Comprehensive safety testing across harmful content categories
Review of API security features and best practices
🔒Privacy & Compliance+
Standard Anthropic enterprise compliance posture: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA-eligible, training opt-out by default for API traffic.
Review of enterprise documentation and privacy policies
Analysis of privacy policy and data usage terms
Review of terms of service and data retention policies
Review of data protection capabilities and customer responsibilities
Verification of compliance certifications and audit reports
Review of data handling practices and trust center documentation
👁️Trust & Transparency+
Strong documentation and guardrails. Thinking content omitted by default reduces out-of-the-box reasoning visibility; opt in to summarized display if reasoning is surfaced to users.
Evaluation of reasoning transparency and explanation capabilities
Testing on factual QA datasets and document-fidelity evaluations
Evaluation on bias benchmarks and diverse demographic testing
Qualitative assessment of confidence expression in outputs
Review of documentation completeness and clarity
Review of public disclosures about training data
Analysis of built-in safety mechanisms
⚙️Operational Excellence+
Mature operational profile. Superseded by Opus 4.8 as the flagship Opus, but remains fully supported at the same $5/$25 price; upgrade to 4.8 is a drop-in model-ID swap.
Review of API design, consistency, and feature completeness
Review of SDK quality, documentation, and maintenance
Review of versioning policy and historical practices
Review of available monitoring tools and metrics
Assessment of documentation, community, and support responsiveness
Analysis of third-party integrations and availability surfaces
Review of licensing terms and restrictions
- +64.3% SWE-Bench Pro and 94.2% GPQA Diamond at launch
- +First Claude with high-resolution vision: 2576px long edge with pixel-accurate coordinates
- +Introduced the xhigh effort level and task budgets (beta) for agentic token control
- +1M token context window with 128K max output at $5/$25
- +More literal, predictable instruction following for tuned pipelines
- +Strong compliance posture: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA-eligible, training opt-out by default
- !Superseded by Opus 4.8 as the current flagship Opus (same price, drop-in upgrade)
- !Adaptive thinking only — budget_tokens and temperature/top_p/top_k return 400
- !Thinking content omitted by default; summarized display requires opt-in
- !Full-resolution images can use up to ~3x more image tokens than prior models
- !Reaches for tools and subagents less often than Opus 4.6 without explicit prompting
Use Case Ratings
code generation
64.3% SWE-Bench Pro with strong long-horizon agentic coding and improved bug-finding. Superseded by Opus 4.8 at the same price — prefer 4.8 for new builds.
customer support
High quality but more clipped, direct tone than 4.8; Sonnet/Haiku tiers are more cost-effective for routine volume.
content creation
Strong long-form output, though more terse and less warm than Opus 4.8 by default; style is prompt-tunable.
data analysis
Excellent analytical depth; high-resolution vision enables pixel-level chart and figure transcription.
research assistant
Strong deep research with 1M context and improved file-based memory; Opus 4.8 improves further on long-horizon coherence.
legal compliance
Strong privacy posture (SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA-eligible) and literal instruction following suited to compliance pipelines.
healthcare
HIPAA eligible with training opt-out by default; high-resolution vision aids medical document and chart understanding.
financial analysis
Excellent quantitative reasoning; pixel-accurate chart reading and 1M context handle full filings and figures.
education
Clear, precise explanations with effort-adjustable depth; more literal style benefits structured curricula.
creative writing
Capable but more clipped and direct than Opus 4.8's warmer voice; no sampling parameters, so variety must be prompted.