Claude Opus 4.7 vs Claude 3.5 Haiku

Side-by-side comparison of Claude Opus 4.7 (Anthropic) and Claude 3.5 Haiku (Anthropic). Exact API pricing per million tokens, context windows, output speed, and total cost on real-world prompts.

Specifications

Spec Claude Opus 4.7 Claude 3.5 Haiku
Provider Anthropic Anthropic
Model id claude-opus-4.7 claude-3.5-haiku
Input price (per 1M tokens) $5.00 $0.80
Output price (per 1M tokens) $25.00 $4.00
Context window 1,000,000 200,000
Output speed (tokens/sec) ~30 ~120

Cost on real prompts

Total cost = (input tokens × input price) + (output tokens × output price). Numbers below use the exact pricing tables published by each provider.

Scenario Input Output Claude Opus 4.7 Claude 3.5 Haiku Cheaper
Short question + answer 50 150 $0.004000 $0.00064 Claude 3.5 Haiku
Code review on one file 500 1,500 $0.040000 $0.006400 Claude 3.5 Haiku
Long document summary 5,000 500 $0.037500 $0.006000 Claude 3.5 Haiku
Heavy reasoning task 2,000 8,000 $0.210000 $0.033600 Claude 3.5 Haiku
Full codebase analysis 50,000 10,000 $0.500000 $0.080000 Claude 3.5 Haiku

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When to pick which

Heuristics derived from the spec table above. Always validate on your own prompts before committing — these are starting points, not verdicts.

Pick Claude Opus 4.7 for

  • tasks needing a larger context window — claude-opus-4.7 fits 5x more tokens than claude-3.5-haiku
  • complex multi-step reasoning (math, debugging, planning) — claude-opus-4.7 uses chain-of-thought internally

Pick Claude 3.5 Haiku for

  • output-heavy workloads — claude-3.5-haiku is meaningfully cheaper per output token
  • input-heavy workloads — claude-3.5-haiku is cheaper per input token
  • latency-sensitive UX — claude-3.5-haiku streams faster (~120 vs ~30 tok/s)

Switching between them

For most use cases, switching providers means updating the model id and the request shape if the providers differ. Within the same provider, it's usually a single-line change.

From Claude Opus 4.7 to Claude 3.5 Haiku

# Before
model = "claude-opus-4.7"

# After
model = "claude-3.5-haiku"

If the providers differ (Anthropic vs Anthropic), you'll also need to swap the SDK / endpoint URL. Cross-provider migrations usually take 30 minutes to a few hours depending on how many features (streaming, function calling, tool use) you depend on.

Calculate cost on your own prompt

The examples above use generic input/output ratios. For an exact comparison, paste your real prompt into the calculator — it counts tokens with the right tokenizer for each model and shows side-by-side cost.

Open the calculator with both models →