anthropic charges $25/M tokens for opus 4.7. alibaba just released the same capability for free.

Anthropic released its flagship Claude Opus 4.7 coding model at $25/M tokens, offering improved performance. Simultaneously, Alibaba launched the comparable Qwen3.6-35B-A3B under Apache 2.0 for free, narrowing the performance gap between frontier and open models and challenging the paid API model.