Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads with 21.7% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3.7 Sonnet offers 26.0K more tokens in context window than Nova Lite. Nova Lite is $17.70 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3.7 Sonnet is available on 4 providers. Overall, Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude 3.7 Sonnet represents Anthropic's first hybrid reasoning model, capable of producing near-instant responses or extended step-by-step thinking that is visible to users. Developed with particularly strong improvements in coding and front-end web development, it allows users to control thinking budgets and balances real-world task performance with reasoning capabilities for enterprise applications.
Amazon
Amazon Nova Lite was developed as a lightweight multimodal model, designed to provide efficient AI capabilities for text and image understanding. Built to serve cost-sensitive applications with quick response times, it represents Amazon's entry-level offering in the Nova family.
3 months newer

Nova Lite
Amazon
2024-11-20

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
2025-02-24
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Nova Lite
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Nova Lite
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Nova Lite

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Nova Lite

Nova Lite
Bedrock