Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 brings high-res vision, task budgets and a new tokenizer — Opus 4 retires

Anthropic announced Claude Opus 4.7 on April 16, 2026, its new flagship model that sets new standards in multimodal understanding, agentic capabilities and visual processing. The model is immediately available on Claude.ai, the API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI and Microsoft Foundry.

What does Opus 4.7 bring?

The most significant innovation is support for high-resolution images — up to 2576 pixels and 3.75 megapixels, which is three times more than any previous Claude model. Coordinates are now 1:1 with pixels, eliminating the need for scaling and significantly improving precision in tasks such as document analysis, diagrams and user interfaces.

The new effort level xhigh is designed for the most complex coding and agentic tasks that require deeper reasoning. Additionally, Anthropic introduces task budgets (beta) — a mechanism that gives the model an advisory token budget for an entire agentic loop, allowing it to self-regulate its pace of work and make resource allocation decisions.

Why are the breaking changes important?

Opus 4.7 brings several breaking changes that require attention from development teams. The temperature, top_p and top_k parameters have been completely removed — the model now uses exclusively adaptive thinking instead of explicit budget_tokens for extended thinking. Thinking content is ignored by default, and the new tokenizer generates between 1 and 1.35 times more tokens depending on content.

The price remains identical to the predecessor: $5 for input and $25 for output tokens per million tokens (MTok). The model is simultaneously available on GitHub Copilot for Pro+, Business and Enterprise users with a promotional premium request multiplier of 7.5× until April 30.

What happens to older models?

Anthropic has declared Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 deprecated with a retirement date of June 15, 2026. Teams using the model IDs claude-sonnet-4-20250514 or claude-opus-4-20250918 need to plan migration to version 4.6 or newer.

Among other improvements are a more advanced file-based memory system, better knowledge work capabilities including redlining .docx documents and editing .pptx presentations, and overall improved vision. Opus 4.7 is available on all major cloud platforms from the day of announcement.