Model comparison
Amazon Nova Pro vs Sonar
Sonar is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.
PerplexitySummary
- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 0 categories and Sonar in 5 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Sonar leads 52.6 to 44.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Reasoning: 32.6% for Amazon Nova Pro and 46.3% for Sonar.
- Sonar is cheaper at $1 / $1 per million input/output tokens, against $0.80 / $3.20 for Amazon Nova Pro.
- Amazon Nova Pro accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Pro | Sonar | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Perplexity |
| Noometry Index | 30.5 | 37.8 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-01-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 300K | 128K |
| Max output | 10K | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.80 | $1 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $3.20 | $1 |
| Results tracked | 38 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Amazon Nova Pro: 34.6 (#224), Sonar: 35.1 (#217)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 38.1% | 35.1% |
| LMArena Coding | 1270 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 16.6 (#139), Sonar: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 25% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 1.7% | — |
Reasoning Sonar leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 19.2 (#240), Sonar: 20.3 (#221)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 32.6% | 46.3% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.3% | 37.9% |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | 46.9% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 123.75 | — |
Math Sonar leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 26.4 (#240), Sonar: 31.3 (#197)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 38% | 41.6% |
| Omni-MATH | 24.2% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1252 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 27.1 (#246), Sonar: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.4% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 30.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 44.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1211 | — |
| MMLU | 82% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 24.5 (#121), Sonar: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 980 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 39.9 (#218), Sonar: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1234 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1244 | — |
| LMArena French | 1270 | — |
| LMArena German | 1243 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1200 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1203 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1240 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1182 | — |
Instruction Following Sonar leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 65.1 (#221), Sonar: 71.5 (#146)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.1% | 76.2% |
| IFEval | 81.5% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1235 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#199), Sonar: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1255 | — |
Writing & Preference Sonar leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 44.1 (#221), Sonar: 52.6 (#166)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Language | 37% | 44.1% |
| LMArena Text | 1259 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1212 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 60.5% | — |
| WildBench | 77.7% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1245 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Pro better than Sonar?
Sonar is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro or Sonar?
Sonar is cheaper. It lists at $1 per million input tokens and $1 per million output tokens; Amazon Nova Pro lists at $0.80 and $3.20.
Is Amazon Nova Pro or Sonar better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (34.6 vs 35.1); test both on your own repository before choosing.
Which has the bigger context window?
Amazon Nova Pro does, with 300K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Pro and Sonar share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and Sonar has 7.