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Claude Opus 4.7 Quietly Costs Far More Than 4.6 — Despite Anthropic's 'Flat Pricing' Message
Early user reports and token count analyses reveal that Claude Opus 4.7 consumes significantly more tokens per equivalent task than its predecessor, Opus 4.6 — effectively raising the cost per conversation even though Anthropic held list prices flat. The discrepancy raises important questions about how AI providers communicate model economics to enterprise buyers.