Head-to-head comparison across 4benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Claude Opus 4.6
87
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive)
90
Verified leaderboard positions: Claude Opus 4.6 #4 · Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) #5
Pick Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude Opus 4.6 only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Agentic
+2.3 difference
Coding
+8.5 difference
Knowledge
+8.0 difference
Multimodal
+13.0 difference
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive)
$5 / $25
$5 / $25
40 t/s
N/A
1.78s
N/A
1M
1M
Pick Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude Opus 4.6 only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) has the cleaner provisional overall profile here, landing at 90 versus 87. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive)'s sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 72.9 against 64.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Pro, 53.4% to 64.3%. Claude Opus 4.6 does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) is the reasoning model in the pair, while Claude Opus 4.6 is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 90 to 87. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Pro, where the scores are 53.4% and 64.3%.
Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.2 versus 68.2. Inside this category, HLE w/o tools is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 72.9 versus 64.4. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.9 versus 72.6. Inside this category, CyberGym is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 77.3 versus 64.3. Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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