Claude Opus 4.7 Is Burning Your Budget: 4 Token Multipliers Nobody Warns You About

Claude Opus 4.7 Is Burning Your Budget: 4 Token Multipliers Nobody Warns You About Developers moving production workloads to Claude Opus 4.7 are reporting 1.5–3x higher costs than projected. Not because of pricing changes — because of four silent token multipliers that compound on each other. Fix all four and you can cut costs 60-75% on the same workload. The Compounding Problem Token costs aren't linear. Each multiplier stacks: Base cost: $10 × Retry loops (2x average): $20 × Context bloat (3x