Claude Opus 4.7 vs Claude Sonnet 4.6
Compare Claude Opus 4.7 and Claude Sonnet 4.6, both from Anthropic, in 21 community votes, claude sonnet 4.6 wins 58% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 1.0M vs 1.0M, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Reasoning: Claude Sonnet 4.6 wins 56% of votes
Image Generation: Claude Sonnet 4.6 wins 86% of votes
Analysis: Claude Opus 4.7 wins 100% of votes
Our Verdict
Claude Sonnet 4.6Winner
Claude Opus 4.7Runner-up
Pick Claude Sonnet 4.6. In 21 blind votes, Claude Sonnet 4.6 wins 58% of the time. That's not luck.
Pick Claude Opus 4.7 for Analysis. Pick Claude Sonnet 4.6 for Image Generation, Reasoning.
Clear winner
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4.7
Input
$5.00
Output
$25.00
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Input
$3.00
1.7× cheaper
Output
$15.00
1.7× cheaper
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is cheaper on both — 1.7× input, 1.7× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
65%
Claude Opus 4.7 uses 4.5x more emoji
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Sonnet 4.6
64%Vocabulary56%
20wSentence Length36w
0.51Hedging0.53
4.6Bold5.1
3.8Lists3.4
0.86Emoji0.19
1.60Headings2.10
0.03Transitions0.02
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