Simon Willison on Nostr: I upgraded my Claude token counter tool to compare different models and Opus 4.7 does ...
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
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/20/claude-token-counts/ 
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