… You can give Claude Opus 4.8 a spin right now, so be sure to try it out and see how it improves your workflow. And I suppose I'll see you again next month when Anthropic inevitably releases Opus 4.9 then. …
… Anthropic releases Opus 4.7 to the public You should be able to try it right now As announced on the Anthropic website , the company has pulled back the curtain on Opus 4.7. …
… For many, the most anticipated release in the entire wave was Anthropic's newest flagship model, Opus 4.7 . Now, people expressing their disappointment when a new model drops is nothing new. Every release cycle comes with enraged users. …
… The vision upgrade is probably the most underrated part of the Opus 4.7 release for anyone who isn't a developer. Prior Claude models processed images at around 1.15 megapixels - Opus 4.7 handles up to 3.75, which is more than three times the resolution. …
… Related Claude Opus 4.7 was just released last month, and 4.8 is already here with some massive improvements I'm getting deja vu here. …
… I set both up in the Pi harness, ran the same coding test I'd already used against Claude Opus 4.6 as my baseline, and threw Qwen3-Coder-Next into the mix on my ThinkStation PGX as a local reference point. I used Opus 4.6 here because, at the time of testing, Opus 4.7 hadn’t been released yet. …
… Claude has inline visuals, Artifacts, and now Claude Design a workspace built specifically for prototypes, slides, and UI mockups, powered by Opus 4.7 . …
… To give you an idea of just how much cheaper it is, here are the costs for Anthropic's newly-released Claude Opus 4.7: Model Base Input Tokens 5m Cache Writes 1h Cache Writes Cache Hits & Refreshes Output Tokens Claude Opus 4.7 $5 / MTok $6.25 / MTok $10 / MTok $0.50 / MTok $25 / MTok In other word… …
… That put it above GPT-5.4 at 57.7 and Claude Opus 4.6 at 57.3 on the benchmark that's become the de-facto measure of agentic coding. Fourteen days later, Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.6, and it scraped past GLM-5.1 with a 58.6. …
… Especially with Opus 4.7, where my allocation seems to get burned through on simple tasks it used to handle quickly. …