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Claude Opus 4.7 scores 87.6% on SWE-bench Verified but costs $5/$25 per million tokens. These four models match or near-match its coding performance at a fraction of the price on OpenRouter.
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Claude Opus 4.7 scores 87.6% on SWE-bench Verified but costs $5/$25 per million tokens. These four models match or near-match its coding performance at a fraction of the price on OpenRouter.

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