Model comparison
Nova Premier 1.0 vs Sonar
Nova Premier 1.0 and Sonar score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.3 vs 38.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
PerplexitySummary
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Sonar leads 71.4 to 66.8.
- Sonar is cheaper at $1 / $1 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $12.50 for Nova Premier 1.0.
- Nova Premier 1.0 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Nova Premier 1.0 | Sonar | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Perplexity |
| Noometry Index | 38.3 | 38.5 |
| Released | 2025-04-30 | 2024-01-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 1M | 128K |
| Max output | 10K | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | $1 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $12.50 | $1 |
| Results tracked | 6 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Nova Premier 1.0: —, Sonar: 35.7 (#221)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | — | 35.1% |
Reasoning Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Nova Premier 1.0: 23.0 (#185), Sonar: 21.1 (#227)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 44.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 46.3% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 37.9% |
| LiveBench | — | 46.9% |
Math Too close to call
Nova Premier 1.0: 33.8 (#199), Sonar: 33.7 (#200)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 35% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 41.6% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Nova Premier 1.0: 35.8 (#180), Sonar: —
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 72.6% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 51.8% | — |
Instruction Following Sonar leads
Nova Premier 1.0: 66.8 (#204), Sonar: 71.4 (#150)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 76.2% |
| IFEval | 80.3% | — |
Writing & Preference Sonar leads
Nova Premier 1.0: 51.0 (#178), Sonar: 52.6 (#167)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| WildBench | 78.8% | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 44.1% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Nova Premier 1.0 better than Sonar?
Nova Premier 1.0 and Sonar score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.3 vs 38.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Nova Premier 1.0 or Sonar?
Sonar is cheaper. It lists at $1 per million input tokens and $1 per million output tokens; Nova Premier 1.0 lists at $2.50 and $12.50.
Which has the bigger context window?
Nova Premier 1.0 does, with 1M tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Nova Premier 1.0 and Sonar share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nova Premier 1.0 has 6 scored results on Noometry and Sonar has 7.