Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.7 vs Granite 4.0 Micro

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index. Granite 4.0 Micro costs 245× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #19 Confirmed

Granite 4.0 Micro IBM

29.0

Rank #318 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in 5 categories and Granite 4.0 Micro in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.7 leads 66.7 to 12.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 97.8% for Claude Opus 4.7 and 2.8% for Granite 4.0 Micro.
  • Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper at $0.017 / $0.11 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.7.
  • Claude Opus 4.7 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
  • Granite 4.0 Micro has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.7 and Granite 4.0 Micro specifications
Claude Opus 4.7Granite 4.0 Micro
ProviderAnthropicIBM
Noometry Index58.329.0
Released2026-04-142025-10-02
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M131K
Max output128K118K
Input $ / M tokens$5$0.017
Output $ / M tokens$25$0.11
Results tracked668

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 59.6 (#13), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 4.0 Micro
SWE-bench Verified83.5%—
FrontierCode38.5%—
LMArena WebDev1558—
SciCode54.5%—
GSO44.1%—
WeirdML76.4%—
LMArena Coding1518—
MirrorCode31.1%—
ALE-Bench1,323—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 47.9 (#10), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 4.0 Micro
Terminal-Bench80.2%—
APEX-Agents49.2%—
OSWorld 2.018.2%—
τ²-bench Banking40.2%—
PostTrainBench28.6%—
ExploitBench26.5%—
GBAEval43.8%—
GDP.pdf21%—
LMArena Search1233—
Vending-Bench 210,937—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 53.8 (#29), Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 4.0 Micro
Chess Puzzles30%0%
ARC-AGI-275.8%—
SimpleBench61.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)39%—
ARC-AGI-193.5%—
CritPt12%—
Thematic Generalization72.8%—
EBR-Bench19%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1506—
Mystery Game Puzzles28%—
DTBench94.7%—
LMCA52.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.25—
ForecastBench60.3—

Math Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 66.7 (#26), Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 4.0 Micro
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.8%2.8%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)70.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 431.7%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions73.6%—
ProofBench54%—
Omni-MATH—20.9%
LMArena Math1499—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)43.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)22.9%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 62.6 (#23), Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 4.0 Micro
GPQA Diamond90.2%28.3%
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified51.7%—
MMLU-Pro—39.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)—30.7%
LMArena Expert1521—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 41.2 (#38), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Vision1316—
Blueprint-Bench 224.5%—
Furniture Assembly33.3%—
LMArena Document1495—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 57.3 (#10), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Non-English1480—
LMArena Chinese1531—
LMArena French1503—
LMArena German1495—
LMArena Japanese1472—
LMArena Korean1464—
LMArena Russian1494—
LMArena Spanish1495—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 78.4 (#10), Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 4.0 Micro
IFEval—84.9%
LMArena Instruction Following1498—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 46.2 (#25), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Longer Query1505—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 75.1 (#8), Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Text1490—
LMArena Creative Writing1486—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1914—
WildBench—67%
EQ-Bench 41311—
LMArena Multi-Turn1505—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than Granite 4.0 Micro?

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index. Granite 4.0 Micro costs 245× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.7 or Granite 4.0 Micro?

Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.017 per million input tokens and $0.11 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.7 lists at $5 and $25.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.7 does, with 1M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.7 and Granite 4.0 Micro share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.7 has 66 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 Micro has 8.

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