I'm very suspicious of these same price model launches. It feels like they're benchmaxxed so they can put everyone on them and reduce their compute costs behind the scenes. If the model were genuinely better why wouldn't they charge more for it? Charging the same for something better is a race to the bottom.

Opus 4.7 wasn't noticably any better for me, I still use 4.6 because it's cheaper.

Deepseek made their 75% discount permanent, so I can imagine that Anthropic didn't want any of the news stories around this to focus on or mention a price increase.

Models are already expensive. Increasing price means losing customer. And, I think GPT 5.5 is much better at opus these days.