Anthropic has just released Claude 3.7 Sonet and Claude Code, and they are already making waves in the AI and programming communities. With enhanced reasoning capabilities and powerful coding assistance, these new tools are proving to be a game-changer for developers. In this blog, we’ll break down everything you need to know about these updates, including benchmarks, pricing, features, and real-world testing.
Claude 3.7 Sonet vs. The Competition
Claude 3.7 Sonet has set new benchmarks, outperforming OpenAI O1, OpenAI O3 Mini, and DeepSeek R1 in reasoning-based tasks.
- Reasoning Model vs. Non-Reasoning Model:
- The reasoning model shows significant improvements in agentic tool use and complex problem-solving.
- It now competes directly with OpenAI’s latest models in multilingual tasks, visual reasoning, instruction following, and math problem-solving.
- However, Grok 3 Beta has shown slightly better performance in some areas.
Availability & Pricing
Claude 3.7 Sonet is now available for Free, Pro, Team, and Enterprise users, including API access for AI-powered applications.
- Pricing remains the same as its predecessors:
- $3 per million input tokens
- $15 per million output tokens (which includes extended thinking tokens)
With the GitHub integration now available for all Claude plans, developers can seamlessly integrate their repositories with Claude 3.7 Sonet, significantly accelerating development workflows.
Claude Code: The AI Developer’s Best Friend
Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and speeds up your development process using natural language.
Features of Claude Code
- Edits files and fixes bugs automatically.
- Answers questions about your codebase.
- Executes and fixes tests with minimal human intervention.
- Searches through Git history and provides relevant context.
- Refactors code based on best practices.
- Creates and manages pull requests.
- Generates project documentation.
- Works with images and sets up project memory.
- Configures styling based on preferences.
System Requirements & Installation
Running Claude Code requires minimal setup. Simply type Cloe in your terminal to begin interacting with your project. If you’re interested, we can provide a step-by-step guide on installation and integration.
Real-World Testing: How Well Does It Work?
Experiment 1: Front-End Development with Svelte
We tested Claude Code by asking it to build a microphone visualizer UI using Svelte, TypeScript, and Tailwind. The results:
✅ Successfully generated a working UI with waveform visualization.
✅ Created structured components for reusability.
❌ Missed using TypeScript and Tailwind despite detecting them in the tech stack. ❌ Failed to use Svelte 5 Rune syntax.
Cost: $0.65 – equivalent to an egg or a banana.
Experiment 2: GitHub-Based Code Refactoring
We tested Claude Code on a Next.js chat app directly within the terminal.
- Claude scanned the entire repository and understood the project structure.
- We asked it to replace the left sidebar with a chat history section and add a new chat button.
- It identified and updated the necessary files without explicit file paths.
- It provided a step-by-step explanation of its approach.
- After accepting the changes, it automatically ran unit tests and fixed build errors.
- Finally, it committed the changes and pushed them to GitHub.
Final Verdict: Claude Code automates a huge portion of development and debugging, making it an extremely useful tool for developers.
Future of AI-Powered Development
Anthropic’s roadmap suggests we are moving from Claude Assistants (2024) → Claude Collaborators → Claude Agents. By 2027, we could see Claude Pioneers tackling problems that would traditionally require years of human effort.
With reasoning models like Claude 3.7 Sonet and agentic tools like Claude Code, AI is no longer just an assistant—it’s a collaborator.