Claude Opus 4.7 vs Claude Opus 4.8 Fast

Side-by-side comparison. Updated 2026-06-04.

Verdict

Claude Opus 4.7 wins on higher overall score (9.6 vs 9.3, +0.3).

Both models score equally. Pick based on which strengths align with your workload.

Claude Opus 4.7
by Anthropic
9.6 /10 Elite
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Claude Opus 4.8 Fast
by Anthropic
9.3 /10 Elite
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At a Glance

Side-by-side comparison of Claude Opus 4.7 and Claude Opus 4.8 Fast
Attribute Claude Opus 4.7 Claude Opus 4.8 Fast
Provider Anthropic Anthropic
Tags general Fast
Context 200,000 tokens 1,000,000 tokens
Input price $15.00/1M $10.00/1M
Output price $50.00/1M $50.00/1M
Input modalities Text Text
Output modalities Text Text

Claude Opus 4.7 Strengths

  • Built for long-running asynchronous agent pipelines
  • More efficient tokenizer (1.47x on English text)
  • Stronger multi-step task reliability than 4.5
  • Improved knowledge work — documents, presentations, data
  • Maintains coherence across very long outputs

Claude Opus 4.8 Fast Strengths