Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Nova 2.0 Pro Preview

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic

44.1

Rank #81 Confirmed

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview Amazon

33.4

Rank #244 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4.5 scores higher in 3 categories and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads 38.3 to 21.9.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview specifications
Claude Sonnet 4.5Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
ProviderAnthropicAmazon
Noometry Index44.133.4
Released2025-09-292025-12-02
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$3—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked733

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 47.3 (#61), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 40.8 (#133)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
SciCode44.7%42.7%
SWE-bench Verified71.3%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)71.4%—
LMArena WebDev1393—
SWE-bench Multilingual67%—
GSO14.7%—
WeirdML47.7%—
LMArena Coding1489—
ALE-Bench796.15—
AlgoTune1.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 38.3 (#32), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 21.9 (#136)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
Terminal-Bench46.5%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard73.2%—
GDPval42.5%—
Remote Labor Index2.1%—
τ²-bench Airline72%—
τ²-bench Banking25.3%—
τ²-bench Retail72.4%—
τ²-bench Telecom84.9%—
Cybench60%—
DeepResearch Bench52.6%—
OSWorld62.9%—
GDP.pdf—2%
LMArena Search1159—
METR Time Horizons67.4%—
Vending-Bench 23,839—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 26.9 (#125), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 22.4 (#194)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
CritPt1.1%0%
ARC-AGI-213.6%—
SimpleBench54.3%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark57.9%—
NYT Connections (extended)37.3%—
ARC-AGI-163.7%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval6%—
EBR-Bench2.4%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1462—
Mystery Game Puzzles17%—
DTBench83.2%—
LMCA38.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index146.84—
ForecastBench61.9—

Math Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 32.3 (#216), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)23.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202577.8%—
ProofBench19%—
Omni-MATH55.3%—
LMArena Math1449—
MATH Level 597.7%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)15.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 48.4 (#76), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
GPQA Diamond82.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam13.7%—
SimpleQA Verified30.7%—
MMLU-Pro86.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)68.6%—
LMArena Expert1482—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 34.8 (#89), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
VPCT39.8%—
LMArena Document1450—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 53.4 (#69), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
LMArena Non-English1425—
LMArena Chinese1459—
LMArena French1458—
LMArena German1427—
LMArena Japanese1390—
LMArena Korean1403—
LMArena Russian1437—
LMArena Spanish1457—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 75.0 (#78), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
IFEval85%—
LMArena Instruction Following1459—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 45.2 (#46), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
LMArena Longer Query1476—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 66.5 (#34), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
LMArena Text1439—
LMArena Creative Writing1442—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1678—
WildBench85.4%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1465—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4.5 better than Nova 2.0 Pro Preview?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Nova 2.0 Pro Preview better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.3 versus 40.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4.5 has 73 scored results on Noometry and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview has 3.

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