# Claude Opus 4.5 vs Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive)

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Opus 4.5 and Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-opus-4-5-vs-claude-opus-4-7-adaptive
- Last updated: September 15, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 10
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude Opus 4.5 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) leads overall 69.39 to 58.55.
- The clearest category separation is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 23.5 for Claude Opus 4.5 and 50.3 for Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive).
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MCP Atlas in Agentic, with scores of 42.3% and 77.3%.
- Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Opus 4.5 | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 1M |
| Overall Score | 58.55 | 69.39 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 45 | 21 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $5.00 / $25.00 | $5.00 / $25.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 43.2 (Estimated · #98/153)
- Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) public-lane score: 57.5 (Supported · #32/153)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.3% | 69.4% | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) |
| OSWorld-Verified | 66.3% | 78% | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) |
| OSWorld | 66.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 59.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | 52.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 70.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | 23.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | 26.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | 43.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 42.3% | 77.3% | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) |
| MCP-Tasks | 71.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 76.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | 50.6% | 73.1% | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) |
| Gert Labs | 64.23% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 32.3% | 45.9% | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 79.3% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Coming soon | 18.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 56.7 (Estimated · #36/152)
- Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) public-lane score: 57.7 (Estimated · #31/152)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.9% | 87.6% | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 84.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 57.1% | 64.3% | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) |
| SWE Multilingual | 77.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | 43.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 69.4% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 23.5 (#46/48)
- Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) public-lane score: 50.3 (#36/48)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 70.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 74.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 68.5% | 91% | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) |
| VideoMMMU | 84.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 45.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| V* | 67.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA Pro | Coming soon | 43.6% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | Coming soon | 82.1% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 72.1 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) public-lane score: 49.7 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 64.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | 74% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MRCR v2 128K-256K | Coming soon | 59.2% | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Coming soon | 75.8% | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | Coming soon | 0.2% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 54 (Estimated · #59/183)
- Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) public-lane score: 61.2 (Estimated · #33/183)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 87% | 94.2% | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) |
| SuperGPQA | 70.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 89.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | 96.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | 92.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 30.8% | 54.7% | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 94.2% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 46.9% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 39.5 (#105/123)
- Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 90.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFBench | 58% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 82.9 (#2/12)
- Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 85.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | 56.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 58.3 (#6/7)
- Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 95.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 92.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 93.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 85.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | 84.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 20.690% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 4.167% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath (legacy) | Coming soon | 43.8% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Opus 4.5 or Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive)?

Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Opus 4.5 and Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive)?

The widest category gap is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 23.5 for Claude Opus 4.5 and 50.3 for Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive).

### How many benchmarks does Claude Opus 4.5 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Opus 4.5 currently has 45 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) cover on BenchLM?

Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) currently has 21 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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