Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 Ships at $75/M — 66x Gemma 4
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.7 this week at $75 per million output tokens, while Google released Gemma 4 at roughly 66x lower cost — this video walks through what each release actually contains and how the pricing split reshapes the frontier-vs-open stack.
Covered in this video:
Claude Opus 4.7 pricing: $75 per million output tokens
Direct successor to Opus 4.5, which shipped in March
Dense transformer architecture, served via Anthropic API, AWS Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI
Google's Gemma 4 release as the competitive counterweight
~66x cost differential between Opus 4.7 and Gemma 4
Three forward catalysts: Google I/O Connect in December, upcoming benchmark disclosures, and enterprise deployment signals
Sources referenced: Anthropic's official model card and pricing page, Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 announcement, AWS Bedrock and Google Vertex AI deployment listings, and reporting from The Information and Bloomberg on enterprise contract pricing.
Timestamps:
00:00 Claude Opus 4.7 and Gemma 4 releases
00:22 Opus 4.7 deployment and availability
04:17 Gemma 4 competitive release timing
07:53 Future catalysts shaping model competition