Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.7 or IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview?
As of August 30, 2026, IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview is 100% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview costs $0.02 per million input tokens and $0.11 per million output tokens ($0.13 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). Claude Opus 4.7 costs $5.00 / $25.00 per million tokens ($30.00 blended). Sources: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing and https://openrouter.ai/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-micro. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
How much does Claude Opus 4.7 vs IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview cost per million tokens?
Claude Opus 4.7 Claude API pricing from Anthropic is $5.00 input and $25.00 output per million tokens via Anthropic. IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview OpenRouter API pricing is $0.02 input and $0.11 output per million tokens via OpenRouter. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
Which is better for coding, Claude Opus 4.7 or IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview?
Claude Opus 4.7 has a published SWE-bench Verified score of 87.6%. IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview does not have that eval on this page yet.
What is the context window for Claude Opus 4.7 vs IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview?
Claude Opus 4.7 supports a 1M token context window, while IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview supports 131K tokens. Claude Opus 4.7 offers a larger context window. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
Which model performs better on benchmarks, Claude Opus 4.7 or IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview?
Shared benchmark scores for Claude Opus 4.7 and IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview are still limited. Check the comparison table for the evals each model has published. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Is Claude Opus 4.7 or IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview better for production use?
Both Claude Opus 4.7 and IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Can I switch between Claude Opus 4.7 and IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview in my app?
Yes. Call Claude Opus 4.7 through Anthropic and IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview through OpenRouter with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
How accurate is this Claude Opus 4.7 vs IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview pricing data?
List rates are the latest published Claude API pricing from Anthropic and OpenRouter API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing and https://openrouter.ai/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-micro. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
What is the output token limit for Claude Opus 4.7 and IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview?
Claude Opus 4.7 supports up to 128K output tokens per request, while IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview supports up to an unspecified number of output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Which model has better throughput, Claude Opus 4.7 or IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview?
Claude Opus 4.7 has a measured throughput of approximately 42 tokens/second. Throughput data for IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview is not yet available. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
How do I switch the models in this Claude Opus 4.7 vs IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview comparison?
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open Claude Opus 4.7 or IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
