Amazon Nova Pro vs Claude Sonnet 4.6
Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Claude Sonnet 4.6 is meaningfully stronger at coding (85 vs 68).
- •Amazon Nova Pro is 73% cheaper on input tokens, which compounds fast on high-volume or agentic workloads.
- •Claude Sonnet 4.6 has a 1M context window vs 300K tokens - better for whole-repo or long-document work.
Specs comparison
| Amazon Nova Pro | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon Web Services | Anthropic |
| Type | Closed source | Closed source |
| Context window | 300K tokens | ✓1M |
| Input / 1M tokens | ✓$0.80 | $3.00 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $3.20 | $15.00 |
| Release date | 2024-12 | 2026-02 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | ~85% | - |
| SWE-bench Verified | - | 79.6% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | - | 59.1% |
| OSWorld-Verified | - | 72.5% |
| GPQA | - | 79.7% |
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 Sonnet 4.6 if...
- →You have an existing integration pinned to Sonnet 4.6 and want stability
- →You need a proven mid-tier model with 1M context at $3/$15
- →You want predictable behavior without the new-tokenizer/thinking changes in Sonnet 5
- →You are cost-sensitive and don't need Sonnet 5's incremental gains