Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.7 vs Step 3.7 Flash

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 37.3 on the Noometry Index. Step 3.7 Flash costs 24× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #19 Confirmed

Step 3.7 Flash StepFun

37.3

Rank #207 Reported

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in 3 categories and Step 3.7 Flash in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.7 leads 53.8 to 21.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 54.5% for Claude Opus 4.7 and 40% for Step 3.7 Flash.
  • Step 3.7 Flash is cheaper at $0.18 / $1.11 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.7.
  • Claude Opus 4.7 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 256K.
  • Step 3.7 Flash has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.7 and Step 3.7 Flash specifications
Claude Opus 4.7Step 3.7 Flash
ProviderAnthropicStepFun
Noometry Index58.337.3
Released2026-04-142026-05-29
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M256K
Max output128K256K
Input $ / M tokens$5$0.18
Output $ / M tokens$25$1.11
Results tracked665

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 59.6 (#13), Step 3.7 Flash: 40.0 (#150)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Step 3.7 Flash
SciCode54.5%40%
ALE-Bench1,323694.12
SWE-bench Verified83.5%—
FrontierCode38.5%—
LMArena WebDev1558—
GSO44.1%—
WeirdML76.4%—
LMArena Coding1518—
MirrorCode31.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 47.9 (#10), Step 3.7 Flash: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Step 3.7 Flash
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), Step 3.7 Flash: 21.6 (#219)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Step 3.7 Flash
NYT Connections (extended)39%39.7%
CritPt12%2.3%
ARC-AGI-275.8%—
SimpleBench61.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.7%—
ARC-AGI-193.5%—
Chess Puzzles30%—
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), Step 3.7 Flash: 42.9 (#82)

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 62.6 (#23), Step 3.7 Flash: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Step 3.7 Flash
GPQA Diamond90.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified51.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
LMArena Expert1521—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 41.2 (#38), Step 3.7 Flash: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Step 3.7 Flash
LMArena Vision1316—
Blueprint-Bench 224.5%—
Furniture Assembly33.3%—
LMArena Document1495—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 57.3 (#10), Step 3.7 Flash: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Step 3.7 Flash
LMArena Non-English1480—
LMArena Chinese1531—
LMArena French1503—
LMArena German1495—
LMArena Japanese1472—
LMArena Korean1464—
LMArena Russian1494—
LMArena Spanish1495—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 78.4 (#10), Step 3.7 Flash: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Step 3.7 Flash
LMArena Instruction Following1498—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 46.2 (#25), Step 3.7 Flash: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Step 3.7 Flash
LMArena Longer Query1505—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 75.1 (#8), Step 3.7 Flash: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Step 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text1490—
LMArena Creative Writing1486—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1914—
EQ-Bench 41311—
LMArena Multi-Turn1505—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than Step 3.7 Flash?

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 37.3 on the Noometry Index. Step 3.7 Flash costs 24× 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 Step 3.7 Flash?

Step 3.7 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.18 per million input tokens and $1.11 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.7 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Claude Opus 4.7 or Step 3.7 Flash better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.6 versus 40.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.7 does, with 1M tokens against 256K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.7 and Step 3.7 Flash share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.7 has 66 scored results on Noometry and Step 3.7 Flash has 5.

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