Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Nova Premier 1.0

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.1 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic

50.1

Rank #42 Confirmed

Nova Premier 1.0 Amazon

37.7

Rank #185 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads 46.1 to 22.3.
  • Nova Premier 1.0 is cheaper at $2.50 / $12.50 per million input/output tokens, against $3 / $15 for Claude Sonnet 4.6.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4.6Nova Premier 1.0
ProviderAnthropicAmazon
Noometry Index50.137.7
Released2026-02-172025-04-30
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M1M
Max output128K10K
Input $ / M tokens$3$2.50
Output $ / M tokens$15$12.50
Results tracked576

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.0 (#62), Nova Premier 1.0: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nova Premier 1.0
SWE-bench Verified75.2%—
DeepSWE29.9%—
FrontierCode24.3%—
LMArena WebDev1521—
SciCode46.8%—
WeirdML66.1%—
LMArena Coding1504—
ALE-Bench1,327—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 39.1 (#26), Nova Premier 1.0: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nova Premier 1.0
Terminal-Bench53.4%—
APEX-Agents43%—
OSWorld 2.09.3%—
DeepResearch Bench54.9%—
OSWorld72.1%—
ExploitBench23.6%—
GBAEval48.8%—
GDP.pdf18%—
LMArena Search1221—
Vending-Bench 27,204—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.1 (#40), Nova Premier 1.0: 22.3 (#182)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nova Premier 1.0
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—44.8%
NYT Connections (extended)80.9%—
ARC-AGI-186.5%—
CritPt3.1%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
Thematic Generalization76.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1485—
Mystery Game Puzzles16%—
DTBench89.9%—
LMCA46.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index152.25—
ForecastBench62—

Math Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 51.9 (#41), Nova Premier 1.0: 31.5 (#194)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nova Premier 1.0
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202585.8%—
ProofBench45%—
Omni-MATH—35%
LMArena Math1463—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)32.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)8.3%—

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 51.6 (#60), Nova Premier 1.0: 35.4 (#176)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nova Premier 1.0
GPQA Diamond87.4%—
SimpleQA Verified35.5%—
MMLU-Pro—72.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.6%—
GPQA (HELM)—51.8%
LMArena Expert1500—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 38.0 (#61), Nova Premier 1.0: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nova Premier 1.0
LMArena Vision1283—
Blueprint-Bench 26.7%—
LMArena Document1482—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 54.6 (#39), Nova Premier 1.0: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nova Premier 1.0
LMArena Non-English1440—
LMArena Chinese1491—
LMArena French1465—
LMArena German1428—
LMArena Japanese1419—
LMArena Korean1411—
LMArena Russian1440—
LMArena Spanish1465—

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 77.6 (#23), Nova Premier 1.0: 66.9 (#201)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nova Premier 1.0
IFEval—80.3%
LMArena Instruction Following1476—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 45.3 (#40), Nova Premier 1.0: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nova Premier 1.0
LMArena Longer Query1479—

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 70.4 (#22), Nova Premier 1.0: 51.0 (#174)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Nova Premier 1.0
LMArena Text1458—
LMArena Creative Writing1435—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1810—
WildBench—78.8%
EQ-Bench 41207—
LMArena Multi-Turn1464—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 better than Nova Premier 1.0?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.1 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Nova Premier 1.0?

Nova Premier 1.0 is cheaper. It lists at $2.50 per million input tokens and $12.50 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 4.6 lists at $3 and $15.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 1M tokens.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Nova Premier 1.0 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4.6 has 57 scored results on Noometry and Nova Premier 1.0 has 6.

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