Opus 4.7 hits regressions, stealth price hike

Anthropic’s 4.7 update is a stability and transparency failure that trades developer trust for increased margins through stealth price hikes.

• –Sudden API removals without deprecation cycles are unacceptable for a flagship enterprise-grade model.
• –The 35% token cost increase via a new tokenizer is a deceptive way to raise prices without changing the per-million-token rate.
• –Hiding reasoning tokens by default obscures the model's logic and makes it harder for developers to monitor or optimize costs.
• –The "laziness" reports indicate a regression in reasoning efficiency that now requires manual "high effort" overrides to mitigate.