Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads with 34.4% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3 Opus offers 72.0K more tokens in context window than Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Claude 3.7 Sonnet is $72.00 cheaper per million tokens. Overall, Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude 3 Opus was developed as the most capable model in the Claude 3 family, designed to set new industry benchmarks across a wide range of cognitive tasks. Built to handle complex analysis and extended tasks requiring deep reasoning, it balanced frontier intelligence with careful safety considerations, representing the flagship tier of the Claude 3 generation.
Anthropic
Claude 3.7 Sonnet represents Anthropic's first hybrid reasoning model, capable of producing near-instant responses or extended step-by-step thinking that is visible to users. Developed with particularly strong improvements in coding and front-end web development, it allows users to control thinking budgets and balances real-world task performance with reasoning capabilities for enterprise applications.
12 months newer

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
2024-02-29

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
2025-02-24
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3 Opus

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Claude 3 Opus

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3 Opus

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Claude 3 Opus

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock
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