Claude Opus 4.7 Launches Overnight: The Agent Vision King That Dominates Its Predecessors, Plus a China Upgrade Guide
Summary: Recently, Anthropic officially released the highly anticipated Claude Opus 4.7, defining it as the most powerful general-purpose model currently available to the public. Compared to the previous generation, Claude Opus 4.7 has achieved a qualitative leap in complex task handling, long-horizon execution, and vision capabilities. This article will give you a full breakdown of Claude Opus 4.7's core upgrades, benchmark results, and a detailed tutorial on how to quickly upgrade and use it in China.
# 📑 Table of Contents (click to jump)
- 1. Claude Opus 4.7 Launches Overnight: The Current Strongest Model
- 2. Core Upgrades: Focus on Complex Tasks and Long-Horizon Execution
- 3. Agent Vision Overhaul: Filling AI's Biggest Shortcoming
- 4. Pricing and New Features: Dynamic Effort at Your Fingertips
- 5. How to Use Claude Opus 4.7 in China? (With Upgrade Tutorial)
1. Claude Opus 4.7 Launches Overnight: The Current Strongest Model
Recently, Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.7 overnight, officially defining it as the most powerful Claude model currently available to the public.
Although its performance metrics aren't as explosive as the previously leaked new-generation Claude Mythos Preview, among the models ordinary users can actually get their hands on, it is vastly stronger than the previous Opus 4.6. Apart from a slight decline in agentic search capability, Claude Opus 4.7 delivers near-total dominance across all core metrics!
The four key words official gave for this upgrade: complex tasks, stronger vision, more stable long-horizon execution, and less need for human intervention. As long as you're still using AI models to write documents, read screenshots, build presentations, or organize materials, the efficiency revolution brought by Claude Opus 4.7 is absolutely not to be missed.
Let's see how GPT-5.4 Thinking evaluates its powerful rival:
2. Core Upgrades: Focus on Complex Tasks and Long-Horizon Execution
The most critical point of this Claude Opus 4.7 upgrade is the high completion rate on complex tasks.
Anthropic has focused Opus 4.7's core efforts on advanced software engineering and long-duration task execution. Now users can confidently hand over difficult coding work that previously required close supervision. It will not only execute your prompt instructions with extreme rigor, but will also proactively find ways to verify the correctness of its output before reporting back.
In the API release notes, Anthropic calls it "the strongest general-purpose model for complex reasoning and agentic coding scenarios."
The focus of competition among large models is shifting from "does it answer convincingly" to "does it finish the job." Merely writing a nice piece of code or a good answer is no longer enough. Can it thoroughly clean up a long document? Can it stitch scattered materials into a deliverable business proposal? Can it keep running for dozens of minutes without veering off course or hallucinating? That is the core foundation of Claude Opus 4.7's ability to "carry the load" for working people in everyday tasks.
3. Agent Vision Overhaul: Filling AI's Biggest Shortcoming
The most dazzling highlight of this update is the massive surge in Claude Opus 4.7's vision capabilities! Across several benchmarks, it jumped from around 50% with Opus 4.6 to near-perfect scores! This fully patches the biggest vision shortcoming of current AI.
In ScreenSpot-Pro (the agent screen-location capability test):
- Give the model a high-resolution desktop screenshot containing professional software such as VSCode, Photoshop, and AutoCAD, along with a natural-language instruction asking it to locate a specific UI element (which often occupies only about 0.07% of the entire image).
- Low-resolution test (without tools): Opus 4.6 scored 57.7%, while Claude Opus 4.7 took 69.0%, a lead of 11.3 percentage points.
- High-resolution test (without tools): Opus 4.7 directly reached 79.5%.
- With tool calls added: the score surged to 87.6%!
In benchmarks like XBOW, Opus 4.7's score more than doubled compared to 4.6, jumping from 54.5% to near-perfect 98.5%! This vision leap has created a world of difference in Claude Opus 4.7's Computer Use capability — it may have unknowingly crossed the most important threshold for replacing human work.
4. Pricing and New Features: Dynamic Effort at Your Fingertips
The good news is that, despite the major capability boost, Claude Opus 4.7's API pricing remains the same as 4.6 and 4.5 — there is no price increase. (Of course, this flagship-level price still sits in the high-end tier.)
🔥 Claude Code's New Killer Feature: Dynamically Switch Effort (Compute Level)
You can now adjust the model's "depth of thinking" at any point mid-task, with no need to restart the conversation!
Opus 4.7 introduces a brand-new effort level xhigh in Claude Code, sitting between the original high and max:
- low / medium: Suitable for cost- and latency-sensitive scenarios. When the task scope is clear and no complex reasoning is needed, it's both fast and economical.
- high: The sweet spot. Suitable for running multiple concurrent sessions, or guaranteeing output quality while controlling cost.
- xhigh (officially recommended daily default): An excellent choice for designing API interfaces, schema design, migrating legacy code, and reviewing large codebases.
- max: Reserved for the truly hard problems. Used for extremely complex, logic-heavy tasks where cost is not a concern (note: max only applies to the current session; other levels are sticky).
💡 Advanced usage tip:
In a long task, you can first use the /effort command to set the beginning to xhigh for overall planning and core logic writing; then temporarily drop to high while handling repetitive grunt work in the middle, dramatically saving cost!
5. How to Use Claude Opus 4.7 in China? (With Upgrade Tutorial)
At this point, the question most of you care about: how exactly do I get to use the latest Claude Opus 4.7?
Currently it comes down to the following situations:
- Regular users (claude.ai web version)
Go directly to the official site
[claude.ai](https://claude.ai), log in, and you'll find Claude Opus 4.7 in the model selection dropdown in the chat interface. - Subscription requirements Free users can currently only use the Claude Haiku model. To experience the full-power Opus 4.7, you need to subscribe to Claude Pro ($20/month) or Claude Max ($100/month).
🚀 Exclusive Perks / Upgrade Guide
If you're in China and hitting network restrictions, don't have an overseas credit card, or don't know how to activate/upgrade Claude Pro to experience Opus 4.7, head over to 👇
👉 https://claudezh.cn/ (opens new window) (one-stop Claude account upgrade and usage solutions)