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Claude Opus 4.7: Coding Upgrades, Pricing, Context, and the Mythos Backstory
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.7 on April 16, 2026 as its new flagship. This piece walks through the coding and vision upgrades (CursorBench jumps from 58% to 70%, Rakuten SWE-Bench solves 3× more), how 4.7 compares to 4.6 on price, context, and features, and the unusual decision Anthropic openly disclosed: Opus 4.7 is a deliberately capability-reduced sibling of the still-gated Mythos Preview model — the reasoning behind that is worth a closer look.