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Claude Sonnet 5 Paid vs AMNova Pro 1.0 Paid

Claude Sonnet 5 vs Nova Pro 1.0 compared — price per token, context window, multimodality, openness and which to choose. Full 2026 breakdown.

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Claude Sonnet 5PaidAnthropic
$2 /M input
$10 /M outputManaged API (no infra to run)
TypeProprietary
Context window1M tokens
MultimodalYes
Self-hostNo
AMNova Pro 1.0PaidAmazon
$0.8 /M input
$3.2 /M outputManaged API (no infra to run)
TypeProprietary
Context window300K tokens
MultimodalYes
Self-hostNo
Choose Nova Pro 1.0 for the lower output price ($3.2/M vs $10/M). Choose Claude Sonnet 5 if you need the larger 1M context window.

Claude Sonnet 5 vs Nova Pro 1.0 specs

SpecClaude Sonnet 5Nova Pro 1.0Winner
MakerAnthropicAmazon
TypeProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M tokens300K tokensClaude Sonnet 5
Input price$2/M$0.8/MAMNova Pro 1.0
Output price$10/M$3.2/MAMNova Pro 1.0
Vision / multimodalYesYes= Tie
Tool / function callingYesYes= Tie
Self-hostableNo (API only)No (API only)
LicenseProprietaryProprietary

Price gap & when to choose each

3.1×cheaper per output token

Nova Pro 1.0 is ~3.1× cheaper than Claude Sonnet 5 on output tokens ($3.2 vs $10 per M tokens).

Choose Claude Sonnet 5 if…
  • You want frontier performance through a managed API
  • You need the longer 1M context window
  • You value reliability & ecosystem
  • You don't want to manage infrastructure
AMChoose Nova Pro 1.0 if…
  • 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

CapabilityClaude Sonnet 5Nova Pro 1.0
Open weights (downloadable)
Self-hostable
Runs fully offline
Vision / multimodal
Tool / function calling
1M+ context window

Benchmarks: Claude Sonnet 5 vs Nova Pro 1.0

Independent benchmark scores measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better (except latency).

Claude Sonnet 5
Nova Pro 1.0
Intelligence index
38.4
Coding index
71.5
GPQA
91.1%
Humanity's Last Exam
41.3%
Long Context Reasoning
82%
SciCode
54.3%
τ-Bench Banking
37.3%
Terminal-Bench
80.5%
Speed
83.2 tok/s
Latency
114.22s
Intelligence per $
9.6

Benchmark data by Artificial Analysis.

How Claude Sonnet 5 and Nova Pro 1.0 score

🤝 Neck and neck on these criteria (3.2 vs 3.1 / 5).
CriterionClaude Sonnet 5Nova Pro 1.0
Cost-efficiency3.54.0
Context window5.04.0
Openness1.51.5
Self-hosting1.01.0
Multimodality5.05.0

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 Sonnet 5 Paid

Anthropic · Proprietary

Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work. It supports adaptive thinking with selectable reasoning effort levels (low, medium, high, max,...

Nova Pro 1.0 Paid

Amazon · Proprietary

Amazon Nova Pro 1.0 is a capable multimodal model from Amazon focused on providing a combination of accuracy, speed, and cost for a wide range of tasks. As of December...

Other models in these families

These variants are tracked but not compared here — one page per family keeps the comparison readable.

Other variants tracked
Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)Claude Sonnet 4.6Claude Sonnet 4.6 (batch)Claude Sonnet 4.5Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch)Claude Sonnet 4

Frequently asked questions

Claude Sonnet 5 vs Nova Pro 1.0 — which is cheaper?

Nova Pro 1.0 is cheaper on output ($3.2/M vs $10/M).

Which has the larger context window?

Claude Sonnet 5 offers the larger context window (1M tokens).

Claude Sonnet 5 vs Nova Pro 1.0 — which should I pick in 2026?

Choose Nova Pro 1.0 for the lower output price ($3.2/M vs $10/M). Choose Claude Sonnet 5 if you need the larger 1M context window.

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