Claude Opus 4.7 took back the lead in AI coding
Anthropic's April 2026 model gained almost 11 points on a hard programming benchmark at the same price.
Kivorent News desk, published , 1 min read
10.9points gained on SWE-bench Pro
This is a look back at an event from . We wrote it on November 11, 2026, from the sources listed at the end.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 on April 16, 2026. It gained 10.9 points on SWE-bench Pro, a test built from real software engineering tasks, and moved ahead of OpenAI's GPT-5.4 and Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro on coding, according to AI Weekly.
The price did not change: $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens.
Why it mattered
Writing software is the use that businesses pay the most for, so the coding lead is the one AI companies fight over hardest. It changed hands several times in 2026.
A better model at the same price is also a price cut by another name. Explicit ones followed in the autumn, when OpenAI cut its prices by four-fifths.
Sources
- Generative AI: Anthropic just retook the frontier, quietly, AI Weekly, week of April 11 to 18, 2026
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