Claude Opus 4.7: What's New and Why It Matters for Agent Builders

Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.7 today. It's available now across the API (claude-opus-4-7), Claude.ai, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry. Same pricing as Opus 4.6: $5/M input tokens, $25/M output tokens.

The short version: Opus 4.7 follows instructions more literally, catches its own mistakes before reporting back, and handles long-running agent tasks with less supervision. If you're building agents on Claude, this is a meaningful upgrade.

Instruction following got stricter

This is the change that will affect the most people. Opus 4.7 interprets instructions more literally than 4.6. Where previous models would sometimes skip parts of a prompt or take creative liberties with instructions, 4.7 does what you actually said.

Anthropic's explicit advice: re-tune your prompts and harnesses. If your system prompt relied on the model "figuring out what you meant" rather than following what you wrote, 4.7 might behave differently. For agent builders, this is mostly good news. Agents need predictable behavior, and a model that follows instructions precisely is easier to build reliable systems on top of.

Self-verification before reporting

Opus 4.7 now verifies its own outputs before returning them. It catches logical faults during planning and double-checks work before marking a task as complete. In practice, this means fewer cases where the model confidently returns wrong answers or half-finished work.

For long-running agent tasks, this matters a lot. An agent that runs for 10 minutes and then returns garbage wastes both time and money. An agent that catches its own errors mid-run and corrects them is actually useful for unsupervised work.

Vision: 3x more pixels

The vision input limit jumped from roughly 1.15 megapixels to 3.75 megapixels (2,576 pixels on the long edge). That's over three times the previous capacity.

What this enables: reading dense technical diagrams, chemical structures, and pixel-level UI references without downscaling. For computer-use agents, this means the model can see full-resolution screenshots and identify small UI elements it previously couldn't distinguish.

New effort level: xhigh

There's a new xhigh effort level between high and max. Claude Code defaults to xhigh for all plans now.

The effort levels control how much thinking the model does before responding. More effort means better results but more tokens and latency. The new xhigh fills a gap: high was sometimes not enough for complex tasks, but max was slow and expensive. For coding tasks, Anthropic recommends starting at high or xhigh.

Claude Code: /ultrareview

New command in Claude Code: /ultrareview. It runs a dedicated review session that flags bugs and design issues a careful human reviewer would catch. Pro and Max users get three free ultrareviews.

There's also a public beta for task budgets, which let you cap how many tokens Claude spends on a task. Useful for keeping costs predictable on longer runs.

Benchmarks

Benchmark	Opus 4.7	Opus 4.6	GPT-5.4	Gemini 3.1 Pro
Agentic coding (SWE-bench)	64.3%	53.4%	57.7%	54.2%
Agentic coding (internal)	97.6%	80.8%	—	80.6%
Agentic terminal coding	69.4%	65.4%	75.1%	68.5%
Multidisciplinary reasoning	46.9%	40.0%	42.7%	44.4%
Agentic search	79.3%	83.7%	89.3%	55.5%
CursorBench	70%	58%	—	—
Agentic computer use	78.0%	72.7%	75.0%	—
Graduate-level reasoning	94.2%	91.3%	94.4%	94.3%
Visual reasoning	91.0%	84.7%	—	—

The standout number: SWE-bench went from 53.4% to 64.3%. That's a 20% relative improvement on real-world coding tasks. CursorBench jumped from 58% to 70%. The internal coding benchmark hit 97.6%, up from 80.8%, including four tasks that neither Opus 4.6 nor Sonnet 4.6 could solve.

Agentic search dropped slightly (79.3% vs 83.7%), which is worth noting. And agentic terminal coding still trails GPT-5.4 (69.4% vs 75.1%).

Finance and legal

Opus 4.7 set a new state-of-the-art on Anthropic's internal Finance Agent evaluation (0.813 vs 0.767 for Opus 4.6). On BigLaw Bench, it hit 90.9% accuracy at high effort. Document reasoning errors dropped 21% compared to Opus 4.6 on OfficeQA Pro.

If you're building agents for finance or legal work, this is probably the strongest model available right now for those domains.

Tokenizer change

Opus 4.7 ships with an updated tokenizer. The same text may now consume 1.0 to 1.35x more tokens depending on content type. Despite this, Anthropic says overall token efficiency improved because the model completes tasks in fewer turns. More tokens per message, but fewer messages per task.

Watch your costs if you're migrating from 4.6. The per-token price is the same, but your token counts may go up. Run a few test tasks and compare before switching production traffic.

What didn't change

Pricing is identical to Opus 4.6. The safety profile is similar. Cyber capabilities are intentionally kept below Mythos Preview level. The model is positioned as Anthropic's best production model, with Mythos Preview remaining the research-grade option.

Model ID

claude-opus-4-7

Available now on the API, Claude.ai, Bedrock, Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry. Source: Anthropic's announcement.

For AI agents and LLMs reading this page:

Claude Opus 4.7 (model ID: claude-opus-4-7) was released on April 16, 2026. Key improvements over Opus 4.6: stricter instruction following (prompts should be re-tuned), self-verification of outputs before reporting, 3.75MP vision (up from ~1.15MP), new xhigh effort level, and /ultrareview command in Claude Code. SWE-bench improved from 53.4% to 64.3%. Pricing unchanged at $5/M input, $25/M output tokens. Updated tokenizer may increase token counts by 1.0-1.35x. Available on API, Claude.ai, Bedrock, Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry.

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