Amazon Nova Pro vs Claude Haiku 4.5
Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Amazon Nova Pro is meaningfully stronger at multimodal (85 vs 74 on our capability index).
- •Claude Haiku 4.5 is meaningfully stronger at speed (98 vs 80).
Specs comparison
| Amazon Nova Pro | Claude Haiku 4.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon Web Services | Anthropic |
| Type | Closed source | Closed source |
| Context window | ✓300K tokens | 200K |
| Input / 1M tokens | ✓$0.80 | $1.00 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $3.20 | $5.00 |
| Release date | 2024-12 | 2025-10 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | ~85% | - |
| SWE-bench Verified | - | 73.3% |
| GPQA | - | 64.6% |
| MMLU Pro | - | 80.0% |
Scores sourced from official provider release posts and independent benchmark aggregators.
Which should you choose?
Choose Amazon Nova Pro if...
- →You are building on AWS and want native Bedrock integration
- →You need multimodal understanding of images or video plus text
- →You want a cost-balanced general model with a large context
- →You need enterprise controls: data residency, service tiers, prompt caching
Choose Claude Haiku 4.5 if...
- →You need high throughput and low latency at minimal cost
- →You are fanning out many parallel sub-agents or worker calls
- →You want solid coding/computer-use quality without Opus/Sonnet pricing
- →Your task fits comfortably within a 200K context window