Model comparison
Claude Opus 4.5 vs Nova 2 Lite
Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 39.7 on the Noometry Index. Nova 2 Lite costs 12× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher in 9 categories and Nova 2 Lite in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Claude Opus 4.5 leads 47.3 to 24.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 77.5% for Claude Opus 4.5 and 27.1% for Nova 2 Lite.
- Nova 2 Lite is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.5.
- Nova 2 Lite accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 200K.
Side by side
| Claude Opus 4.5 | Nova 2 Lite | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Amazon |
| Noometry Index | 50.5 | 39.7 |
| Released | 2025-11-01 | 2025-12-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 200K | 1M |
| Max output | 64K | 64K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $5 | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $25 | $2.50 |
| Results tracked | 69 | 19 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Claude Opus 4.5: 54.8 (#27), Nova 2 Lite: 40.7 (#134)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1504 | 1385 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 76.7% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 76.8% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1494 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 70.7% | — |
| GSO | 26.5% | — |
| WeirdML | 63.7% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 1,025 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.77 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Claude Opus 4.5: 47.3 (#12), Nova 2 Lite: 24.1 (#121)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 77.5% | 27.1% |
| Terminal-Bench | 63.1% | — |
| GDPval | 45.5% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 3.8% | — |
| τ²-bench Airline | 84% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 24.7% | — |
| τ²-bench Retail | 79.6% | — |
| τ²-bench Telecom | 92.3% | — |
| Cybench | 82% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 54.8% | — |
| OSWorld | 66.3% | — |
| BALROG | 43.5% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1180 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 75% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 4,967 | — |
Reasoning Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Claude Opus 4.5: 42.6 (#51), Nova 2 Lite: 27.5 (#118)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1476 | 1364 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 37.6% | — |
| SimpleBench | 62% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 80.2% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 52.5% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 80% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 12% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 11.9% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 14.3% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 22% | — |
| DTBench | 89.9% | — |
| LMCA | 44.5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 150.09 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.7 | — |
Math Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Claude Opus 4.5: 38.6 (#132), Nova 2 Lite: 37.5 (#156)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1463 | 1359 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 34.4% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 4.9% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 86.1% | — |
| ProofBench | 36% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 20.7% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |
Knowledge Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Claude Opus 4.5: 56.5 (#44), Nova 2 Lite: 43.0 (#94)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 10.9% | 5.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1487 | 1358 |
| GPQA Diamond | 86% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 25.2% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 45.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Opus 4.5: 31.4 (#107), Nova 2 Lite: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| GeoBench | 75% | — |
| VPCT | 40% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 28.3% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1462 | — |
Multilingual Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Claude Opus 4.5: 54.3 (#47), Nova 2 Lite: 47.1 (#153)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1438 | 1337 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1470 | 1364 |
| LMArena French | 1471 | 1381 |
| LMArena German | 1449 | 1343 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1416 | 1271 |
| LMArena Korean | 1424 | 1284 |
| LMArena Russian | 1447 | 1343 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1458 | 1373 |
Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Claude Opus 4.5: 77.5 (#19), Nova 2 Lite: 70.5 (#161)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1478 | 1335 |
Long Context Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Claude Opus 4.5: 46.5 (#22), Nova 2 Lite: 40.6 (#150)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1480 | 1335 |
| CL-bench | 21.1% | — |
Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Claude Opus 4.5: 68.1 (#28), Nova 2 Lite: 53.9 (#154)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1451 | 1362 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1445 | 1291 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1466 | 1338 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1687 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Opus 4.5 better than Nova 2 Lite?
Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 39.7 on the Noometry Index. Nova 2 Lite costs 12× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.5 or Nova 2 Lite?
Nova 2 Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.5 lists at $5 and $25.
Is Claude Opus 4.5 or Nova 2 Lite better for coding?
Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 54.8 versus 40.7 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Nova 2 Lite does, with 1M tokens against 200K.
How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.5 and Nova 2 Lite share?
19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Nova 2 Lite has 19.