Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Nova 2 Lite offers 797.0K more tokens in context window than Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Nova 2 Lite is $17.60 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude 3.5 Sonnet, updated by Anthropic in October 2024 (originally released June 2024), is a large language model from the Claude 3.5 family that delivered strong performance in coding, reasoning, and instruction-following at its release. It supports a 200K token context window, 8K maximum output tokens, and native image understanding including screenshot analysis and document comprehension. Claude 3.5 Sonnet targets general-purpose development tasks, document analysis, and applications requiring reliable instruction following with visual input support.
Amazon
Amazon Nova 2 Lite, released by Amazon Web Services on December 2, 2025, is a fast, cost-efficient reasoning model available on Amazon Bedrock with a 1M token context window enabling extended document, video, and image analysis. It features three extended thinking intensity levels, built-in code interpreter, web grounding tools, and native support for text, image, video, and document input. Nova 2 Lite targets cost-sensitive agentic applications, document analysis pipelines, and real-time workloads requiring multimodal reasoning.
1 year newer

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-10-22

Nova 2 Lite
Amazon
2025-12-02
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Nova 2 Lite
Context window and performance specifications
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
2024-04
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
Nova 2 Lite
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Nova 2 Lite
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Nova 2 Lite
AWS Bedrock