I tried a 15MB, 30 page text-heavy PDF and Opus 4.7 reported 60,934 tokens while 4.6 reported 56,482 – that's a 1.08x multiplier, significantly lower than the multiplier I got for raw text.
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ChatGPT 630K sensitive responses calculated from 0.07% rate
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I looked that one up – that Mother Jones 630,000 number appears to have been calculated based on the 0.07% number in this October article https://
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Opus 4.7 Image Token Cost Analysis Same Resolution
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Important to note: that 3x increase for images is entirely due to Opus 4.7 being able to handle higher resolutions. I tried that again with a 682×318 pixel image and it took 314 tokens with Opus 4.7 and 310 with Opus 4.6, so effectively the same cost.
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Fetching Datasette Data into Google Sheets Automation
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New TIL on fetching data from a Datasette instance into Google Sheets using importdata(), named custom functions or Google Apps Script
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Claude Opus 4.7 Token Usage Increases Effective Pricing Significantly
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I upgraded my Claude token counter tool to compare different models and Opus 4.7 does appear to use 1.46x times the tokens for text and up to 3x the tokens for images – it's priced the same as Opus 4.6 on a per-token basis so this is actually a pretty big price bump
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Claude Code: Anthropic’s AI Programming Tool Launch
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That's Claud Code, I'm taking about http://
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Improving Claude AI Transparency Through Published Tool Descriptions
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The biggest challenge of using chat-based AI systems is that the details of what they can do are invisible – those tool descriptions are the missing manual, publishing them would be a huge benefit to people who want to get the most out of Claude
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Claude Power User Requests Tool Descriptions Publication
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Note to @AnthropicAI – much as I appreciate the public system prompts this would be so much more valuable to me as a Claude power user if you published the tool descriptions as well
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Opus 4.6 Model Selector Tool Capabilities Change
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I switched to Opus 4.6 in the model selector and asked about tools and seemed to get the same answer, which makes me think I would have needed to snapshot the tool descriptions a few weeks ago
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Claude Opus 4.6 vs 4.7 System Prompt Differences Analysis
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Since Anthropic publish their system prompts we can generate a diff between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 – here are my notes on what's changed