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Claude Opus 4.7 Pricing vs GPT-5.4: Real Cost April 2026

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Claude Opus 4.7 Pricing vs GPT-5.4: Real Cost April 2026

Opus 4.7 shipped April 16, 2026 at the same price as Opus 4.6. GPT-5.4 stayed at its late-2025 pricing. On paper, Claude is 1.5–2.5× more expensive per token. In practice, the real cost depends entirely on whether you’re buying API tokens, a subscription, or running agentic loops. Here’s how the math actually works out.

Last verified: April 20, 2026

TL;DR

ScenarioCheaper option
Per-token API, light useGPT-5.4
Per-token API, cache-heavyTie (cache equalizes)
Heavy daily codingClaude Code Max
General ChatGPT-style useChatGPT Plus
Enterprise with 10K+ usersGPT-5.4 (volume discounts)
Agentic workflows (many tool calls)Claude Code Max
Image + video generationChatGPT Pro
MCP tool useClaude Code Max

Raw API pricing

Claude Opus 4.7 (Anthropic)

Price$/1M tokens
Input$15.00
Input (cache write)$18.75
Input (cache hit)$1.50
Output$75.00
Vision+$0.024/image

GPT-5.4 (OpenAI)

Price$/1M tokens
Input$10.00
Input (cached)$5.00
Output$30.00
VisionIncluded

GPT-5.4 variants

ModelInput $/1MOutput $/1M
GPT-5.4$10.00$30.00
GPT-5.4-mini$1.25$5.00
GPT-5.4-nano$0.25$1.25

Claude variants

ModelInput $/1MOutput $/1M
Opus 4.7$15.00$75.00
Sonnet 4.6$3.00$15.00
Haiku 4.5$0.80$4.00

Cost per task: real-world scenarios

Scenario 1: Single-file bug fix

Average task: 50K input, 2K output, 1 cache lookup.

ModelCost
GPT-5.4$0.56
Claude Opus 4.7$0.90
GPT-5.4-mini$0.07
Claude Sonnet 4.6$0.18

GPT-5.4 wins on raw cost. For simple single-file tasks, Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5.4-mini are both dramatically cheaper and plenty capable.

Scenario 2: Agentic multi-tool workflow (xhigh / high effort)

Long task: 200K input (cached), 20K output, 15 tool calls, 4 cache hits.

ModelCost
GPT-5.4 high$1.62
Claude Opus 4.7 xhigh$2.14
Difference$0.52 (Opus 4.7 ~32% more)

On agentic workloads, Opus 4.7 costs more per task — but delivers ~10 percentage points higher success rate. The cost of a failed task (human time to clean up) usually dwarfs the $0.52 difference.

Scenario 3: Prompt-caching heavy, repeated pipeline runs

Repeated runs where 95% of input is cached:

ModelCost per run
Claude Opus 4.7$0.34
GPT-5.4$0.42
Claude Sonnet 4.6$0.08

Anthropic’s 90% cache discount beats OpenAI’s 50% cache discount. For pipelines with heavy context reuse, Claude becomes cheaper.

Subscription pricing (April 2026)

Anthropic

PlanMonthlyIncluded
Claude Free$0Limited daily messages, Sonnet 4.6
Claude Pro$20Opus 4.7 with limits, Claude Code Pro
Claude Max$100Higher Opus 4.7 limits, Claude Code Max
Claude Team$25/user (min 5)Shared workspace, admin
Claude EnterpriseCustomSSO, DPA, higher limits

OpenAI

PlanMonthlyIncluded
ChatGPT Free$0GPT-5.4-mini, limited GPT-5.4
ChatGPT Plus$20GPT-5.4 with limits, Codex, GPT-image-1
ChatGPT Business$30/userTeam features, admin
ChatGPT Pro$200Unlimited GPT-5.4, Codex async, Sora 3
ChatGPT EnterpriseCustomSSO, extended context, priority

Which subscription wins for which use case?

Use caseBest pick
Daily coding, <3 hrs/dayClaude Pro ($20)
Daily coding, 4+ hrs/dayClaude Max ($100)
General assistant workChatGPT Plus ($20)
Power user, all workflowsChatGPT Pro ($200)
Image / video generationChatGPT Plus or Pro
Agentic / Claude Code heavyClaude Max
Teams of 5+ codersClaude Team

The break-even math

At what volume does subscription beat API?

Claude Pro ($20/mo) vs Opus 4.7 API

$20 / $2.14 per task ≈ 9 agentic tasks per month to break even. Most serious coders do 200–500 tasks/month — Claude Pro is radically cheaper.

Claude Max ($100/mo) vs Opus 4.7 API

$100 / $2.14 per task ≈ 47 tasks per month to break even. For daily-coding founders, Max pays for itself in the first week.

ChatGPT Plus ($20/mo) vs GPT-5.4 API

$20 / $1.62 per task ≈ 12 tasks per month. Same story — subscription wins for anyone using GPT-5.4 daily.

The hidden cost: tool-call token expansion

Agentic workflows use way more tokens than people estimate. A single “fix this bug” task with a coding agent often looks like:

  • 12 tool calls (read file, grep, edit file, run tests, etc.)
  • 30K tokens of file content read back
  • 8K tokens of tool schemas in context
  • 5K tokens of reasoning
  • Total: ~100–200K tokens on a medium task

At API rates: $2–5 per task on Opus 4.7, $1–2 per task on GPT-5.4. If you do 100 such tasks a month at API rates, you’re spending $100–500. Claude Code Max at $100/mo is clearly the cheapest path for heavy users.

What’s likely to change in the next 90 days:

  1. GPT-5.4 price drop — OpenAI typically drops older-model prices when new ones launch. If Spud / GPT-5.5 ships, expect GPT-5.4 to drop 20–40%.
  2. Haiku 5 — Anthropic has hinted at a next-gen Haiku. Could price under $1 / $5 per million for near-Sonnet-4.6 quality.
  3. Opus 4.8 or higher — probably ~90 days out. If Anthropic keeps pricing stable (as with 4.6 → 4.7), Opus tokens stay at current rates.
  4. Mythos GA pricing — when Mythos leaves preview, expect $20+ input / $100+ output, reflecting the capability jump.

What I actually recommend in April 2026

✅ If you code daily…

Claude Code Max ($100/mo) is the single best value in AI subscriptions. You get Opus 4.7 at xhigh, unlimited within fair use, Claude Code CLI, Skills, Plugins, and Hooks.

✅ If you do general assistant work…

ChatGPT Plus ($20/mo) covers GPT-5.4, image generation, and general ChatGPT ecosystem. Plus Claude Pro ($20) for deeper thinking on important things.

✅ If you build API-based products…

Use Sonnet 4.6 ($3/$15) or GPT-5.4-mini ($1.25/$5) as default, upgrade to Opus 4.7 or GPT-5.4 only for tasks that genuinely need it. The cost difference is 5–10× for ~1.2× quality in most cases.

✅ If you’re a power user…

Claude Max ($100) + ChatGPT Plus ($20) = $120/month and you have both frontiers covered. This is the stack I actually run.

Verdict

Claude Opus 4.7 is more expensive per token than GPT-5.4, but cheaper in practice for heavy coders on Claude Code Max. At $100/month for effectively unlimited xhigh Opus 4.7, it’s the best deal in premium AI right now.

GPT-5.4 stays the better pick for API-based product builders who need lowest cost per request, and ChatGPT Pro ($200) is the best all-around “I use AI for everything” subscription.

Ignore sticker price, compute break-even volume. On anything more than a handful of tasks per week, the subscription side wins — and for agentic coding, Claude Max is the clear winner in April 2026.