Amazon Nova Pro vs Claude Sonnet 5
Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Claude Sonnet 5 is meaningfully stronger at coding (92 vs 68).
- •Amazon Nova Pro is 73% cheaper on input tokens, which compounds fast on high-volume or agentic workloads.
- •Claude Sonnet 5 has a 1M context window vs 300K tokens - better for whole-repo or long-document work.
Specs comparison
| Amazon Nova Pro | Claude Sonnet 5 | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2026-06 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Claude Sonnet 5 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | ~85% | - |
| SWE-bench Verified | - | ~85.2% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | - | 80.4% |
| SWE-bench Pro | - | 63.2% |
| OSWorld-Verified | - | 81.2% |
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 5 if...
- →You want frontier-adjacent agentic coding but need better cost-efficiency than Opus
- →You are running high-volume agent loops and want strong reasoning per dollar
- →You are already on Sonnet 4.6 and want a same-price capability upgrade
- →You need a 1M context window with fast latency