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Claude Opus 4.7 vs Claude Sonnet 5.5

Claude Sonnet 5.5 grades higher overall (91.2 against 87.3). Claude Sonnet 5.5 costs 60% less for the same work, and both read a 1M-token context.

Claude Opus 4.7

by Anthropic · #6 of 67 overall

Coming soon · price at launch
Context
1M
Input / 1M
$5.00
Output / 1M
$25.00

Claude Sonnet 5.5

by Anthropic · #2 of 67 overall

Coming soon · price at launch
Context
1M
Input / 1M
$2.00
Output / 1M
$10.00

Better overall

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Grade 87.3 vs 91.2

Cheaper

Claude Sonnet 5.5

60% less, $4.00 vs $10.00 blended

Larger context

Same

1M vs 1M tokens

SWE-Bench Pro

Claude Sonnet 5.5

64.3% vs 81.3%

Head to head

Public benchmarks. Longer is better; each value links to its source.

LMArena TextElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026
Claude Opus 4.7Claude Opus 4.7: 1,501
Claude Sonnet 5.5Claude Sonnet 5.5: 1,475
LMArena WebDevElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 13, 2026
Claude Opus 4.7Claude Opus 4.7: 1,558
Claude Sonnet 5.5Claude Sonnet 5.5: 1,774
LMArena CodingElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026
Claude Opus 4.7Claude Opus 4.7: 1,551
Claude Sonnet 5.5Claude Sonnet 5.5: 1,530
SWE-bench Verified% of issues resolved · SWE-bench · Apr 16, 2026 · reference
Claude Sonnet 5.5Claude Sonnet 5.5: —
SWE-Bench Pro% of tasks resolved · Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro · Sep 28, 2026 · reference
Claude Sonnet 5.5Claude Sonnet 5.5: 81.3%v
Terminal-Bench 4.0% of tasks passed · Terminal-Bench · Sep 28, 2026 · reference
Claude Opus 4.7Claude Opus 4.7: —
Claude Sonnet 5.5Claude Sonnet 5.5: 70.6%v
Terminal-Bench 2.0% of tasks passed · Terminal-Bench · Apr 16, 2026 · reference
Claude Sonnet 5.5Claude Sonnet 5.5: —

Claude Opus 4.7Claude Sonnet 5.5v = reported by the model’s maker. — = no public score yet. Arena bars span the range across every model we grade.

What it costs you

Drag to match your monthly usage.

Claude Opus 4.7$2,000 /month
Claude Sonnet 5.5$800 /month

Claude Sonnet 5.5 saves you $1,200 a month at this usage, $14,400 a year.

At a glance

AttributeClaude Opus 4.7Claude Sonnet 5.5
Made byAnthropicAnthropic
AvailabilityComing soonComing soon
Overall gradeExcellent · 87.3Excellent · 91.2
Overall rank#6 of 67#2 of 67
Input price$5.00 per 1M$2.00 per 1M
Output price$25.00 per 1M$10.00 per 1M
Context window1,000,000 tokens1,000,000 tokens
Reasoning levelsYesYes
Reads imagesYesYes
Model IDclaude-opus-4-7claude-sonnet-5-5

Try both with one key

Same endpoint, same key, both hosted in the USA. Change one word to switch models, in Claude Code, Cursor, Cline or your own code.

Get your API key
# Ask either model the same thing
curl https://fullsendai.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FULLSEND_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"model": "claude-opus-4-7", "messages": [...]}'

# …then swap one word
  -d '{"model": "claude-sonnet-5-5", "messages": [...]}'

Questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 or Claude Sonnet 5.5 better?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 grades 91.2 against 87.3 for Claude Opus 4.7, from public benchmarks.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.7 or Claude Sonnet 5.5?

Claude Sonnet 5.5: $2.00 in and $10.00 out per million tokens, against $5.00 and $25.00 through FullsendAI.

Which has the larger context window?

Neither: both take 1,000,000 tokens.

Can I use both with one API key?

Yes, once they launch: both are coming soon, at the prices shown, and both will use the same FullsendAI key.

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Scores: LMArena (CC BY 4.0), SWE-bench, Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro, Terminal-Bench, and model makers’ published results where marked v. Prices are FullsendAI’s, per million tokens. Data as of Oct 28, 2026.