Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads with 43.4% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4.5 offers 8.0K more tokens in context window than Nova Micro. Nova Micro is $17.83 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4.5 supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5 was developed to bridge human thinking and machine assistance, allowing people to work with language and tools in a more conversational and natural way. Built with a focus on turning ideas into results, it represents an evolution in making AI feel less mechanical while maintaining strong capabilities across reasoning, coding, and collaborative tasks.
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.
10 months newer

Nova Micro
Amazon
2024-11-20

Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
2025-09-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Sonnet 4.5

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

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Nova Micro
Claude Sonnet 4.5
2025-01-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
ZeroEval


Claude Sonnet 4.5

Nova Micro

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Nova Micro
Nova Micro
Bedrock