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  "slug": "claude-opus-vs-sonnet-vs-haiku",
  "title": "Claude Opus 4.7 vs Sonnet 4.5 vs Haiku 4 — Benchmarks, Prices, Picking a Tier",
  "h1": "Claude Opus vs Sonnet vs Haiku",
  "shortTitle": "Opus vs Sonnet vs Haiku",
  "description": "Pick the right Claude tier: reasoning, coding, latency, cost, and caching across Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku.",
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  "lastUpdated": "2026-06-21",
  "faqs": [
    {
      "q": "Which Claude tier should I start on?",
      "a": "Sonnet 4.5. About 90% of production workloads land here. Add a Haiku 4 router for easy requests and an Opus 4.7 escalator for the 5-15% of hard ones only after you have metrics showing you need them."
    },
    {
      "q": "When is Opus 4.7 actually worth $15/$75 per MTok?",
      "a": "Long-horizon agents (10+ tool calls), deep multi-file coding, and research reports with 20k+ tokens of reasoning. For everything else, Sonnet hits 90%+ of the quality at 20% of the cost."
    },
    {
      "q": "Can Haiku 4 really do production work?",
      "a": "Yes, for bounded tasks — classification, extraction, intent detection, routing. On these jobs it scores within 5 percentage points of Sonnet at 15-20× lower cost. Don't use it for open-ended generation or long-context synthesis."
    },
    {
      "q": "What's the real cost with prompt caching?",
      "a": "Claude cache reads are 10% of input price. A 5,000-token system prompt at 75% cache-hit drops effective input cost from $15/MTok (Opus) to ~$4.50/MTok. Never run Opus in production without caching."
    },
    {
      "q": "What's Claude Haiku 4's context window?",
      "a": "200k tokens, same as Sonnet and Opus. Anthropic kept context parity across the family in the 4.x generation."
    }
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