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Model comparison

Amazon Nova Micro vs Claude Sonnet 4.6

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 98× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Sonnet 4.6's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Micro Amazon

30.4

Rank #294 Confirmed

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic

50.3

Rank #50 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and Claude Sonnet 4.6 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads 70.2 to 39.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Vectara Hallucination Rate: 5.5% for Amazon Nova Micro and 10.6% for Claude Sonnet 4.6.
  • Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $3 / $15 for Claude Sonnet 4.6.
  • Claude Sonnet 4.6 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Amazon Nova MicroClaude Sonnet 4.6
ProviderAmazonAnthropic
Noometry Index30.450.3
Released2024-12-032026-02-17
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window128K1M
Max output10K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.035$3
Output $ / M tokens$0.14$15
Results tracked3257

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.3 (#67)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Coding12181504
SWE-bench Verified—75.2%
DeepSWE—29.9%
FrontierCode—24.3%
LMArena WebDev—1522
SciCode—46.8%
WeirdML—66.1%
LiveBench Coding20.2%—
ALE-Bench—1,327

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Claude Sonnet 4.6: 39.1 (#28)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Sonnet 4.6
Terminal-Bench—53.4%
APEX-Agents—43%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard22.3%—
OSWorld 2.0—9.3%
DeepResearch Bench—54.9%
OSWorld—72.1%
ExploitBench—23.6%
GBAEval—48.8%
GDP.pdf—18%
LMArena Search—1221
Vending-Bench 2—7,204

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.1 (#45)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Hard Prompts11911484
ARC-AGI-2—60.4%
NYT Connections (extended)—80.9%
ARC-AGI-1—86.5%
CritPt—3.1%
Chess Puzzles—13%
Thematic Generalization—76.3%
LiveBench Reasoning25.1%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—16%
DTBench—89.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis34%—
LMCA—46.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—152.24
ForecastBench—62
LiveBench29.6%—

Math Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Claude Sonnet 4.6: 52.9 (#49)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Math12061462
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—85.8%
ProofBench—45%
Omni-MATH21.4%—
LiveBench Math34.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—32.4%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—8.3%

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Claude Sonnet 4.6: 51.7 (#65)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Sonnet 4.6
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.5%10.6%
LMArena Expert11841500
GPQA Diamond—87.4%
SimpleQA Verified—35.5%
MMLU-Pro51.1%—
GPQA (HELM)38.3%—
MMLU70.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: —, Claude Sonnet 4.6: 38.0 (#68)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Vision—1283
Blueprint-Bench 2—6.7%
LMArena Document—1482

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Claude Sonnet 4.6: 54.4 (#41)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Non-English11861440
LMArena Chinese12091491
LMArena French12381465
LMArena German11921428
LMArena Japanese11541420
LMArena Korean11501411
LMArena Russian11851440
LMArena Spanish12251464

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Claude Sonnet 4.6: 77.4 (#25)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Instruction Following11741475
LiveBench Instruction Following48%—
IFEval76%—

Long Context Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Claude Sonnet 4.6: 45.3 (#44)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Longer Query12051479

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Claude Sonnet 4.6: 70.2 (#22)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroClaude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Text12081458
LMArena Creative Writing11721435
LMArena Multi-Turn11781464
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1810
WildBench74.3%—
EQ-Bench 4—1207
LiveBench Language15.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Claude Sonnet 4.6?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 98× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Sonnet 4.6's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Claude Sonnet 4.6?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 4.6 lists at $3 and $15.

Is Amazon Nova Micro or Claude Sonnet 4.6 better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.3 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 does, with 1M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Claude Sonnet 4.6 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Claude Sonnet 4.6 has 57.

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