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Using Claude Opus 4.7 on GCP Vertex AI

Implementation guide · Claude 4.7 · Anthropic

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GCP Vertex AI exposes Claude Opus 4.7 through model ID claude-opus-4-7. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at GCP Vertex AI and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the GCP Vertex AI SDK or REST API to call claude-opus-4-7 — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $5.00/1M input, $25.00/1M output tokens. See full pricing.
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Code Examples

Install
pip install google-cloud-aiplatform
API key
GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT
Model ID
claude-opus-4-7

For Google-published models use the model name directly, e.g. "gemini-2.0-flash-001". For third-party publishers (Anthropic, Meta, etc.) use the full publisher path, e.g. "publishers/anthropic/models/claude-3-5-sonnet-v2@20241022".

import os
import vertexai
from vertexai.generative_models import GenerativeModel

# Reads GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT from env; authenticates via Application Default Credentials
vertexai.init(project=os.environ["GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT"], location="us-central1")
model = GenerativeModel("claude-opus-4-7")
response = model.generate_content("Hello")
print(response.text)

Pricing on GCP Vertex AI

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$5.00
Output tokens$25.00

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningJSON / Tool useStructured OutputsCode ExecutionPrompt CachingBatch API

About Claude Opus 4.7

Claude Opus 4.7 is Anthropic's generally available flagship model with 1M context, 128K max output, adaptive thinking, and a new tokenizer with roughly 555K words per 1M tokens.

Full model details →

Model Specs

Released2026-04-16
Context1m
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2026-01

Also available on(5)

Anthropic$5.00/1MAWS Bedrock$5.00/1MMicrosoft Foundry$5.00/1M
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Provider

GCP Vertex AI
GCP Vertex AI

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Mountain View, California, United States