Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 leads with 35.4% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4 offers 72.0K more tokens in context window than Nova Micro. Nova Micro is $17.83 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4 supports multimodal inputs. Claude Sonnet 4 is available on 4 providers. Overall, Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4 was created as the balanced offering in the Claude 4 family, designed to provide strong intelligence with practical speed and cost efficiency. Built to serve as a versatile workhorse for diverse applications, it balances advanced capabilities with operational considerations for everyday enterprise and consumer use.
Amazon
Amazon Nova Micro was created as an ultra-compact multimodal model, designed for deployment in resource-constrained environments. Built to bring text and image understanding to edge devices and latency-sensitive applications, it extends Amazon's AI capabilities to minimal footprint scenarios.
6 months newer

Nova Micro
Amazon
2024-11-20

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Sonnet 4

Nova Micro
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Claude Sonnet 4

Nova Micro
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Sonnet 4

Nova Micro

Claude Sonnet 4

Nova Micro

Nova Micro
Bedrock