First token counts reveal Opus 4.7 costs significantly more than 4.6 despite Anthropic's flat pricing

THE DECODER / 4/19/2026

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Key Points

  • Anthropic’s Opus 4.7 keeps the same per-token pricing as Opus 4.6, but total cost per request is higher.
  • The increase is attributed to a new tokenizer that can split the same input text into up to 47% more tokens.
  • Early measurements indicate that this token-count inflation will materially affect real users, such as Claude Code customers.
  • The article highlights that “flat pricing” can still yield higher bills when tokenization changes between model versions.

Anthropic's Opus 4.7 matches its predecessor's per-token price, but each request ends up costing significantly more. The reason: a new tokenizer that breaks the same text into up to 47 percent more tokens. Early measurements show what that shift means in practice for Claude Code users.

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