# Claude Opus 4.7 vs Claude Opus 4.8

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.7 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in 6 of 8 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Coding › Web dev, Long context, Factuality, and Abstraction (ARC).

Claude Opus 4.7: $10 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Opus 4.8: $10 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Opus 4.7: closed weights.

Claude Opus 4.8: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.7 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in General LLM at #5 against #21.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.7 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Reasoning at #4 against #10.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Claude Opus 4.7 in Science at #27 against #34.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.7 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Coding › Web dev at #34 against #35.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.7 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Long context at #4 against #10.
- Which to pick, Vision: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Claude Opus 4.7 in Vision at #13 against #20.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.7 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Factuality at #13 against #24.
- Which to pick, Abstraction (ARC): As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.7 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Abstraction (ARC) at #11 against #12.

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.7 is near state of the art, rank #4 in Reasoning (since Oct 15, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts); methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 is a former state-of-the-art holder in Coding › Web dev (since Jun 5, 2026; sources LMArena WebDev; methodology v1.0).