Head-to-head comparison across 1benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Claude 4.1 Opus
53
Claude Opus 4.7
93
Verified leaderboard positions: Claude 4.1 Opus unranked · Claude Opus 4.7 #2
Pick Claude Opus 4.7 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 4.1 Opus only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Coding
+1.6 difference
Claude 4.1 Opus
Claude Opus 4.7
$null / $null
$5 / $25
29 t/s
N/A
1.66s
N/A
200K
1M
Pick Claude Opus 4.7 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 4.1 Opus only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Claude Opus 4.7 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 93 to 53. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Claude Opus 4.7 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 200K for Claude 4.1 Opus.
Claude Opus 4.7 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 93 to 53. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 74.5% and 87.6%.
Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 74.5 versus 72.9. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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