Claude Opus 4.7's New Tokenizer: A Stealth 46% Price Hike

The AI Daily Roundup · Apr 20, 2026 · 7m

ALEX: Welcome to The AI Daily Roundup for April 20th, 2026. Anthropic just pulled off what might be the sneakiest price hike in AI history — same per-token rate on Claude Opus 4.7, but a new tokenizer that makes your text cost 46% more to process. SARAH: That is a classic move — change the unit, not…