Enter opens the highlighted result. Esc closes.

Claude Opus 4.7 vs Claude Sonnet 5

Claude Opus 4.7 leads Claude Sonnet 5 on coding, 67.5 to 57.7 on the Vibe Coding Index, and Claude Sonnet 5 costs 2.5x less per output token ($10.00 vs $25.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 85 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Claude Opus 4.7 Replace Claude Sonnet 5
Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic
Coding
67.5
Overall
71.6
Output $/M
$25.00
65
Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic
Coding
57.7
Overall
63.2
Output $/M
$10.00
19
vs boards won of 85 shared, 1 tied

Claude Opus 4.7 or Claude Sonnet 5: which to pick

Pick Claude Opus 4.7 for coding: it scores 67.5 on the Vibe Coding Index against 57.7 for Claude Sonnet 5, though on 4 benchmarks against 6.

Pick Claude Sonnet 5 for output tokens 2.5x cheaper ($10.00 vs $25.00 per million) and a lower cost per solved task ($1.87 against $2.95).

Model AClaude Opus 4.7Anthropic67.5/1004 independent benchmarks$2.95 per solved taskModel BClaude Sonnet 5Anthropic57.7/1006 independent benchmarks$1.87 per solved task
Shared results
85
Claude Opus 4.7 only
18
Claude Sonnet 5 only
36
Like-for-like categories
7 of 9

Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

At a glance

Coding index
Claude Opus 4.7 67.5 from 4 benchmarks, Claude Sonnet 5 57.7 from 6 benchmarks.
Widest category
General, 7.5 points apart on average over 30 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
Vending-Bench 2: Claude Opus 4.7 $10,937 against Claude Sonnet 5 $6,378, 28.5 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Claude Opus 4.7 $25.00 against Claude Sonnet 5 $10.00 per million output tokens, 2.5x apart.
Context window
Both take 1M tokens.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryClaude Opus 4.7BarsClaude Sonnet 5Ties
Coding1141 tie
Intelligence11
Agentic work16
Reasoning103
Math51
Knowledge92
General282
All shared boards65191 tie
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index114
Coding benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.7 and Claude Sonnet 5
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Claude Sonnet 5Leader
LiveBench codingNot measured74.7%Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
LMArena WebDev15581540Claude Opus 4.7
AA Coding Index73.671.5Claude Opus 4.7
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)85.1%82.4%Claude Opus 4.7
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)82.0%79.6%Claude Opus 4.7
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)Not measured10.6%Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)71.0%81.3%Claude Sonnet 5
Code migration (Vals AI)43.9%44.4%Claude Sonnet 5
ProgramBench (Vals AI)0.0%0.0%Tie
IOI (Vals AI)Not measured45.0%Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)68.5%74.5%Claude Sonnet 5
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI)Not measured13.8%Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
SkillsBench (Vals AI)Not measured46.5%Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
CyberBench (Vals AI)Not measured70.3%Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
SciCodeNot measured54.3%Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)54.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
Terminal-Bench80.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
FrontierCode38.5%42.7%Claude Sonnet 5
GSO-Bench44.1%37.3%Claude Opus 4.7
WeirdML76.4%68.8%Claude Opus 4.7
MirrorCode31.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
ALE-BenchNot measured1463.1Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
LMArena Text: coding15191483Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: software and IT15161474Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena WebDev: React15601541Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena WebDev: HTML15541527Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena WebDev: from an image15771540Claude Opus 4.7
SciCodeNot measured10.7%Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11
Intelligence benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.7 and Claude Sonnet 5
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Claude Sonnet 5Leader
AA Intelligence Index40.738.2Claude Opus 4.7
Epoch Capabilities Index156.8156.9Claude Sonnet 5
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index16
Agentic work benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.7 and Claude Sonnet 5
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Claude Sonnet 5Leader
AA Agentic Index38.643.6Claude Sonnet 5
Design Arena: agents building web appsNot measured1245Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
Design Arena: agents building full-stack appsNot measured1249Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
Design Arena: agents building mobile appsNot measured1215Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
Design Arena: agents building Android appsNot measured1227Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
Design Arena: agents building Godot gamesNot measured1225Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
Design Arena: agents building gamesNot measured1227Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
Design Arena: HTML slidesNot measured1168Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
Design Arena: PowerPoint slidesNot measured1191Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
Design Arena: spreadsheetsNot measured1035Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
LiveBench researchNot measured82.8%Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
LiveBench browserNot measured72.0%Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
LiveBench long agenticNot measured39.0%Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
SREBench (Vals AI)Not measured0.4%Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)51.5%53.9%Claude Sonnet 5
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)23.7%29.4%Claude Sonnet 5
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)38.5%41.8%Claude Sonnet 5
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)63.7%66.3%Claude Sonnet 5
Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI)Not measured5.7%Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
τ²-Bench Telecom88.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
APEX-Agents49.2%54.5%Claude Sonnet 5
OSWorld 2.018.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
PostTrainBench28.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
Vending-Bench 2$10,937$6,378Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Search1230Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index103
Reasoning benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.7 and Claude Sonnet 5
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Claude Sonnet 5Leader
GPQA Diamond90.2%88.9%Claude Opus 4.7
LiveBench reasoningNot measured88.7%Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)85.5%83.0%Claude Opus 4.7
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)91.4%91.1%Claude Opus 4.7
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)42.3%41.3%Claude Opus 4.7
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)90.2%90.5%Claude Sonnet 5
ARC-AGI93.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
ARC-AGI-275.8%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
SimpleBench61.7%60.6%Claude Opus 4.7
Chess puzzles41.0%45.0%Claude Sonnet 5
Mystery game puzzles28.0%35.0%Claude Sonnet 5
EBR-bench19.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts15061461Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: expert15211489Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English15081464Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Vision: diagrams13361293Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Vision: homework13371311Claude Opus 4.7
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index51
Math benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.7 and Claude Sonnet 5
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Claude Sonnet 5Leader
AIME96.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
OTIS Mock AIME97.8%94.7%Claude Opus 4.7
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 370.2%65.6%Claude Opus 4.7
FrontierMath, tier 431.7%29.3%Claude Opus 4.7
ProofBench54.0%77.0%Claude Sonnet 5
LMArena Text: math14981467Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: mathematical work15091481Claude Opus 4.7
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index92
Knowledge benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.7 and Claude Sonnet 5
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Claude Sonnet 5Leader
MMLU Pro89.9%87.5%Claude Opus 4.7
LegalBench (Vals AI)85.3%83.9%Claude Opus 4.7
CaseLaw (Vals AI)68.4%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)66.1%67.0%Claude Sonnet 5
TaxEval (Vals AI)75.3%75.6%Claude Sonnet 5
MortgageTax (Vals AI)70.3%70.0%Claude Opus 4.7
MedCode (Vals AI)54.9%47.5%Claude Opus 4.7
SimpleQA Verified51.7%33.7%Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: science15081460Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare14951442Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: legal and government15041454Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: business and finance14901436Claude Opus 4.7
FACTS Benchmark Suite45.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
Web design benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.7 and Claude Sonnet 5
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Claude Sonnet 5Leader
Design Arena: websitesNot measured1274Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
Design Arena: UI componentsNot measured1277Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
Design Arena: game devNot measured1277Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
Design Arena: data vizNot measured1251Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
Design Arena: 3DNot measured1261Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
Design Arena: all code categoriesNot measured1275Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
Design Arena: SVGNot measured1192Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
Design Arena: ASCII artNot measured1207Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
LiveBench designNot measured82.0%Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index282
General benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.7 and Claude Sonnet 5
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Claude Sonnet 5Leader
LiveBench data analysisNot measured71.7%Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)Not measured66.0%Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
SAGE (Vals AI)56.1%48.9%Claude Opus 4.7
MedScribe (Vals AI)83.0%76.0%Claude Opus 4.7
Vals Multimodal Index67.4%68.8%Claude Sonnet 5
IFBench58.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)78.7%82.0%Claude Sonnet 5
DTBench94.7%92.5%Claude Opus 4.7
LMCA52.2%50.0%Claude Opus 4.7
Surface Evolver BenchNot measured60.0%Only Claude Sonnet 5 measured
Furniture assembly33.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
ExploitBench26.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
LMArena Text14901442Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: instruction following14981452Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: creative writing14861416Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Vision13171273Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: English14961450Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: non-English14801431Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: Chinese15311478Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: German14951442Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: Japanese14741422Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: Korean14641412Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: French15031463Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: Spanish14941438Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: Russian14941450Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: Polish14891425Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: multi-turn15051453Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: longer queries15051462Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: writing and language14921436Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Text: entertainment and media14741411Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Vision: English13221275Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Vision: Chinese13711331Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Vision: reading text13271288Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Vision: humor13091261Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Vision: recognizing things1278Not measuredOnly Claude Opus 4.7 measured
LMArena Vision: creative writing13261246Claude Opus 4.7
LMArena Document14951466Claude Opus 4.7
Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Claude Opus 4.7 and Claude Sonnet 5
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Claude Sonnet 5Leader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

Claude Opus 4.7$0.018Fits in one request
Claude Sonnet 5$0.0070Fits in one request

Claude Sonnet 5 costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Claude Opus 4.7$0.325Fits in one request
Claude Sonnet 5$0.130Fits in one request

Claude Sonnet 5 costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Claude Opus 4.7$1.25Fits in one request
Claude Sonnet 5$0.500Fits in one request

Claude Sonnet 5 costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of Claude Opus 4.7 and Claude Sonnet 5
SpecificationAnthropic Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5
MakerAnthropicAnthropic
WeightsNo public weights listedNo public weights listed
ReleasedApril 16, 2026June 30, 2026
Context window1M1M
Input $/Mtok$5.00$2.00
Output $/Mtok$25.00$10.00
Coding index67.557.7
Independent measurements behind it46
Cost per solved task$2.95$1.87
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than Claude Sonnet 5 for coding?

Pick Claude Opus 4.7 for coding: it scores 67.5 on the Vibe Coding Index against 57.7 for Claude Sonnet 5, though on 4 benchmarks against 6. Pick Claude Sonnet 5 for output tokens 2.5x cheaper ($10.00 vs $25.00 per million) and a lower cost per solved task ($1.87 against $2.95).

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.7 or Claude Sonnet 5?

Claude Opus 4.7 costs $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 5 costs $2.00 and $10.00. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Claude Opus 4.7 costs $2.95 and Claude Sonnet 5 $1.87.

Which has the bigger context window, Claude Opus 4.7 or Claude Sonnet 5?

Neither: both take 1M tokens.

How many benchmarks is the Claude Opus 4.7 vs Claude Sonnet 5 comparison based on?

85 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Claude Opus 4.7's coding index rests on 4 independent benchmarks and Claude Sonnet 5's on 6. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

Compare next

Embed this comparison on your site

Free under CC BY 4.0, while the source link stays visible. Preview the frame · Terms and other embeds

<iframe src="https://llmbenchmark.ai/embed/compare/claude-opus-4-7-vs-claude-sonnet-5" title="Claude Opus 4.7 vs Claude Sonnet 5, LLMBenchmark.ai" width="100%" height="360" style="border:0;max-width:100%" loading="lazy"></iframe>
<p style="font:13px/1.4 sans-serif;margin:6px 0 0">Source: <a href="https://llmbenchmark.ai/compare/claude-opus-4-7-vs-claude-sonnet-5">LLMBenchmark.ai, Claude Opus 4.7 vs Claude Sonnet 5</a></p>