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

Read the full articleFirst token counts reveal Opus 4.7 costs significantly more than 4.6 despite Anthropic's flat pricing on The Decoder

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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. The article F

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