Claude Opus 5 Paid vs AMNova Premier 1.0 Paid
Claude Opus 5 vs Nova Premier 1.0 compared — price per token, context window, multimodality, openness and which to choose. Full 2026 breakdown.
Claude Opus 5 — full profile › · Nova Premier 1.0 — full profile ›
Prices & specs refreshed from live data · olud.ai
Open-model prices = cheapest provider via OpenRouter; official maker rates may be higher.
$25 /M outputManaged API (no infra to run)
$12.5 /M outputManaged API (no infra to run)
Claude Opus 5 vs Nova Premier 1.0 specs
| Spec | Claude Opus 5 | Nova Premier 1.0 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | Amazon | – |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary | – |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1M tokens | = Tie |
| Input price | $5/M | $2.5/M | AMNova Premier 1.0 |
| Output price | $25/M | $12.5/M | AMNova Premier 1.0 |
| Vision / multimodal | Yes | Yes | = Tie |
| Tool / function calling | Yes | Yes | = Tie |
| Self-hostable | No (API only) | No (API only) | – |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | – |
Price gap & when to choose each
Nova Premier 1.0 is ~2.0× cheaper than Claude Opus 5 on output tokens ($12.5 vs $25 per M tokens).
- You want frontier performance through a managed API
- You value reliability & ecosystem
- You don't want to manage infrastructure
- You want frontier performance through a managed API
- You want the lower output price
- You value reliability & ecosystem
- You don't want to manage infrastructure
Feature comparison
| Capability | Claude Opus 5 | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Open weights (downloadable) | ✗ | ✗ |
| Self-hostable | ✗ | ✗ |
| Runs fully offline | ✗ | ✗ |
| Vision / multimodal | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tool / function calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| 1M+ context window | ✓ | ✓ |
Benchmarks: Claude Opus 5 vs Nova Premier 1.0
Independent benchmark scores measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better (except latency).
Benchmark data by Artificial Analysis.
How Claude Opus 5 and Nova Premier 1.0 score
| Criterion | Claude Opus 5 | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Cost-efficiency | 3.0 | 3.5 |
| Context window | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| Openness | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| Self-hosting | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| Multimodality | 5.0 | 5.0 |
Scores come from live data — output price (cost), context length, open vs closed weights (openness & self-hosting) and vision/tool support (multimodality). Raw task quality isn't scored here; it depends on your benchmark — see the verdict.
What each model is
Claude Opus 5 Paid
Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic’s flagship model for demanding reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic work. It is particularly strong at end-to-end software tasks, code review and bug finding, visual analysis...
Nova Premier 1.0 Paid
Amazon Nova Premier is the most capable of Amazon’s multimodal models for complex reasoning tasks and for use as the best teacher for distilling custom models.
Other models in these families
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Frequently asked questions
Claude Opus 5 vs Nova Premier 1.0 — which is cheaper?
Nova Premier 1.0 is cheaper on output ($12.5/M vs $25/M).
Which has the larger context window?
Claude Opus 5 offers the larger context window (1M tokens).
Claude Opus 5 vs Nova Premier 1.0 — which should I pick in 2026?
Choose Nova Premier 1.0 for the lower output price ($12.5/M vs $25/M). Choose Claude Opus 5 if you need the larger 1M context window.
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