Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 Now Available on Google Cloud's Vertex AI

The latest version of the Claude language model delivers advanced performance across coding, long-running agents, and professional tasks.

Apr. 16, 2026 at 10:15pm

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Anthropic has announced the general availability of its newest Claude Opus 4.7 model on Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform. Opus 4.7 features improved capabilities across a range of tasks, including better problem-solving, more precise following of instructions, and enhanced vision skills for complex documents and charts. By pairing Opus 4.7 with Vertex AI, businesses can build, scale, and govern AI agents with optimized infrastructure, tooling, and security controls.

Why it matters

The integration of Anthropic's powerful Claude language model with Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform provides businesses with a robust and scalable solution for developing and deploying AI-powered applications and agents. Vertex AI's infrastructure, tooling, and security features help maximize the performance and reliability of Claude-based workloads, enabling companies to build innovative solutions with confidence.

The details

Opus 4.7 represents an upgrade from the previous Claude Opus 4.6 model, delivering improved capabilities across a range of tasks. Key enhancements include better handling of ambiguity, more thorough problem-solving, and more precise following of instructions. The model also features expanded vision skills, allowing for higher-resolution image input and better accuracy on complex documents and charts. Additionally, Opus 4.7 has improved memory capabilities for tasks that span longer horizons.

  • Anthropic announced the general availability of Claude Opus 4.7 on Vertex AI on April 16, 2026.

The players

Vertex AI

A unified platform from Google Cloud that provides the infrastructure, tooling, and security controls needed to efficiently scale and govern AI workloads, including those powered by Anthropic's Claude language model.

Anthropic

An artificial intelligence research company that develops advanced language models, including the Claude Opus series, which are now available on the Vertex AI platform.

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What they’re saying

“The combination of Claude and Vertex AI helps us empower millions of merchants with our AI-enabled commerce assistant, Sidekick. There's been a lot of merchants that we've talked to that say Sidekick 'feels like a lifeline for small businesses' and helps them 'come out on top'.”

— Andrew McNamara, Director of Applied AI, Shopify

“In addition to stability, security, and versatility, Vertex AI also ensures that input-output pairing remains consistent across versions as soon as a new Claude model release becomes available. This further accelerates our ability to test, onboard, and use Claude at scale.”

— Chen Wang, CTO, Fifth Dimension

“With Claude running on Vertex AI, we saw a 20% to 30% increase in code development velocity. Running Claude on Vertex AI not only accelerates development projects, it enables us to hardwire security into code before it ships.”

— Gunjan Patel, Director of Engineering, Office of the CPO at Palo Alto Networks

What’s next

Businesses interested in leveraging the power of Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 model can access it through the Google Cloud Marketplace or by exploring the sample notebook provided by the Vertex AI team. Comprehensive pricing and regional availability details are also available in the Vertex AI documentation.

The takeaway

The integration of Anthropic's advanced Claude Opus 4.7 language model with Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform provides businesses with a robust and scalable solution for developing and deploying innovative AI-powered applications and agents. By combining the cutting-edge capabilities of Claude with Vertex AI's optimized infrastructure, tooling, and security controls, companies can accelerate their AI-driven initiatives and deliver transformative solutions to their customers.