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Fast mode for Opus 4.7 available on AI Gateway

Vercel has released fast mode for Claude Opus 4.7 on AI Gateway in research preview, delivering approximately 2.5 times faster output token generation while maintaining full Opus 4.7 intelligence. The experimental feature is priced at six times standard Opus rates, with input at $30 per million tokens and output at $150 per million tokens.

read1 min publishedMay 12, 2026

Fast mode for Claude Opus 4.7 is now available on AI Gateway in research preview. Fast mode delivers ~2.5x faster output token generation with full Opus 4.7 intelligence. This is an early, experimental feature.

To enable fast mode, pass speed: 'fast'

in the anthropic

provider options with anthropic/claude-opus-4.7

.

You can use fast mode with Claude Code via AI Gateway by setting the CLAUDE_CODE_SKIP_FAST_MODE_ORG_CHECK

and CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_OPUS_4_7_FAST_MODE

variables in your shell configuration file or in ~/.claude/settings.json

.

Fast mode is priced at 6x standard Opus rates.

Standard Fast Mode
Input: $5 / 1M tokens Output: $25 / 1M tokens Input: $30 / 1M tokens Output: $150 / 1M tokens

All standard pricing multipliers (e.g., prompt caching) apply on top of these rates.

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