# Opus 4.7: Same Price, Harder SWE — Plus Cyber Blocks Before Mythos

Times of AI Desk · 2026-04-16 · Products

[https://timesof.ai/2026/04/claude-opus-4-7-anthropic-release-software-engineering-vision](https://timesof.ai/2026/04/claude-opus-4-7-anthropic-release-software-engineering-vision)

> Claude Opus 4.7 GA: Anthropic claims big lifts on hardest software-engineering and long-horizon autonomy, vision to 2,576px long edge, tighter instruction following — still $5/$25 MTok — while shipping automatic high-risk cyber blocks as Mythos-class mitigation rehearsal. Lab + early-tester benches; less capable than gated Mythos Preview by Anthropic’s own framing.

Anthropic’s dual track is explicit: **broad GA improvements** on Opus, **gated power** on Mythos. Opus 4.7’s proprietary frame is not another chat polish note — it is **price-flat SWE/vision lift plus production cyber refusal machinery** rehearsed before wider Mythos-class release.

**Anthropic** (April 16) made **Claude Opus 4.7** generally available. Claims vs Opus 4.6: notable gains on hardest/long-running software engineering; substantially better vision (images up to **2,576** pixels long edge, ~**3.75 MP**, >3× prior Claude); more precise instruction following; more “tasteful” creative artifacts (UI, slides, docs). Pricing unchanged: **$5 / $25** per million input/output tokens. Available on Claude products, API (`claude-opus-4-7`), Bedrock, Vertex AI, Microsoft Foundry; Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot integrations. API breaking changes vs 4.6; migration guidance provided. Anthropic positions 4.7 as **less broadly capable than Mythos Preview**.

## Early checks (lab + testers)

| Signal | Reported lift (Anthropic / named early testers) |
|--------|--------------------------------------------------|
| **93-task coding bench** | +13% resolution vs 4.6; four tasks neither prior Opus nor Sonnet 4.6 solved |
| **CursorBench** | 70% vs 58% (4.6) |
| **Rakuten-SWE-Bench** | ~3× more production tasks resolved |
| **Vision / multimodal** | Dense screenshots, diagrams, chemistry; one pentest visual eval 98.5% vs 54.5% cited |

Themes from Hex, Replit, Cursor, Notion, Vercel, Databricks, Ramp, and others: autonomy, instruction fidelity, design taste, fewer corrections — **selected partner quotes**, not a blind third-party index crown in this release note.

## Safety surface

Post–Project Glasswing: automatic detection/blocking of prohibited or high-risk cybersecurity requests; **Cyber Verification Program** for legitimate security pros (vuln research, pentest, red-team). Framed as learning mitigations before broader Mythos release.

## Claims vs checks

GA availability, price, and cyber features are **Anthropic primary**. Benchmark deltas are **lab-selected / early-tester** — treat as directional, not Artificial Analysis Elo. Mythos comparison is **Anthropic’s own capability hierarchy**.

## Limits

- No AA Intelligence Index snapshot bundled in the launch post.
- Partner benches vary in methodology and can be effort-skewed.
- Cyber blocks may false-positive legitimate security work without verification enrollment.
- “Tasteful” outputs remain subjective.

## Sources

- [Anthropic: “Introducing Claude Opus 4.7”](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7) (April 16, 2026).
- Claude Opus 4.7 System Card and related documentation.
- Bedrock / Vertex / Foundry announcements and early tester reports at launch.