PricingApril 19, 20261 min read
Opus 4.7 Price Hike: Anthropic's Latest Model Burns Through 37% More Tokens
Anthropic's Opus 4.7 model consumes significantly more tokens than its predecessor, resulting in higher costs for users despite a flat pricing structure. This increase in token usage has significant implications for developers and businesses relying on the model for their applications.
Anthropic's Opus 4.7 matches its predecessor's per-token price, but each request ends up costing significantly more. The reason: a new tokenizer that breaks the same text into up to 47 percent more tokens. Early measurements show what that shift means in practice for Claude Code users. The article First token counts reveal Opus 4.7 costs significantly more than 4.6 despite Anthropic's flat pricing appeared first on The Decoder.