Claude Opus 4.7 vs Claude Opus 5.5

Wins 0 of 5 benchmarks
$1.34 / task
Wins 3 of 5 benchmarks
Different efforts: high · medium · Compare all at high
MMMU-Pro (vision) MMMU-Pro (vision): College-level questions that require understanding images: charts, diagrams, photos
Opus 4.776.4
Opus 5.585.7
Chartography Chartography: Expert chart reasoning over professional scientific, medical, financial and engineering charts
Opus 4.7 · max16.5
Opus 5.5 · max66.3
Arena Vision · overall Arena Vision · overall: Human pairwise preferences in the stated vision vote pool
Opus 4.71,313.1
Opus 5.5 · high1,320.8
GDP.pdf · AA all-pass GDP.pdf · AA all-pass: Models reason over professional PDF documents; an attempt passes only when every atomic criterion passes
Opus 4.7—
Opus 5.525.6
Arena Document · overall Arena Document · overall: Human pairwise preferences in the stated document vote pool
Opus 4.71,494.7
Opus 5.5—

Specs

SpecOpus 4.7Opus 5.5
Input, per 1M$5$4
Output, per 1M$25$20
Cost per task?—$1.34
Speed, tok/s5981
Context1M1M
WeightsClosedClosed
ReleasedApr 2026Sep 2026
See images✓✓
Read PDFsPartial✓
Hear audio——
Watch video——
Call tools✓✓
Force a tool callPartial—
Return strict JSON✓✓
Search the web?✓
Run code?✓
Use a computer?✓

What breaks when you switch

Opus 4.7 → Opus 5.5
No forced tool use›

Forced tool_choice any or tool returns HTTP 400; remove the forced choice.

Thinking is always on›

Disabled thinking or a manual budget returns HTTP 400; omit thinking or use adaptive thinking.

Remove sampling parameters›

Non-default temperature, top_p or top_k returns HTTP 400; omit these parameters and use prompting.

No assistant prefill›

Assistant prefill returns HTTP 400; use structured outputs or system instructions, with system instructions on Bedrock.

Old computer tool rejected · Claude API / Google Cloud›

The computer_20251124 tool returns HTTP 400 on the Claude API and Google Cloud; use computer_toolset_20260801 there.

Return thinking blocks unmodified›

Edited, reordered or partially dropped thinking blocks return HTTP 400; echo assistant messages complete and unmodified with tool results.

Opus 5.5 → Opus 4.7
Nothing known.