Amazon Nova Premier is the most capable of Amazon’s multimodal models for complex reasoning tasks and for use as the best teacher for distilling custom models.
Model details →Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0 vs Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work. It supports adaptive thinking with selectable reasoning effort levels (low, medium, high, max,...
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0 | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 1M | 1M | Tie |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $2.50 | $2.00 | 🏆 Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $12.50 | $10.00 | 🏆 Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | — | Yes | 🏆 Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0 better than Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5?
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0 and Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5?
Input: $2.50 vs $2.00 per 1M tokens. Output: $12.50 vs $10.00 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0 and Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 support?
Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0 supports up to 1M tokens. Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 supports up to 1M tokens.
Do both Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0 and Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 support tool calling?
Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0: yes. Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5: yes.