Amazon Nova Pro vs Claude Opus 4.8
Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Amazon Nova Pro is meaningfully stronger at speed (80 vs 68 on our capability index).
- •Claude Opus 4.8 is meaningfully stronger at coding (96 vs 68).
- •Amazon Nova Pro is 84% cheaper on input tokens, which compounds fast on high-volume or agentic workloads.
- •Claude Opus 4.8 has a 1M context window vs 300K tokens - better for whole-repo or long-document work.
Specs comparison
| Amazon Nova Pro | Claude Opus 4.8 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon Web Services | Anthropic |
| Type | Closed source | Closed source |
| Context window | 300K tokens | ✓1M |
| Input / 1M tokens | ✓$0.80 | $5.00 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $3.20 | $25.00 |
| Release date | 2024-12 | 2026-05 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Claude Opus 4.8 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | ~85% | - |
| SWE-bench Verified | - | 88.6% |
| SWE-bench Pro | - | 69.2% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | - | 74.6% |
| GPQA Diamond | - | 93.6% |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index | - | 61.4 |
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 Opus 4.8 if...
- →You need top-tier autonomous coding and multi-step agentic reliability
- →You run long-horizon agent traces that previously derailed after compaction
- →You want enterprise-grade reasoning with 1M context and 128k output
- →You need throughput and are willing to pay fast-mode premium for 2.5x speed