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Model comparison

Amazon Nova Pro vs Claude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Pro costs 7.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.8's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Pro Amazon

31.0

Rank #281 Confirmed

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #13 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 0 categories and Claude Opus 4.8 in 10 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 78.4 to 28.5.
  • Amazon Nova Pro is cheaper at $0.80 / $3.20 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.8.
  • Claude Opus 4.8 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 300K.

Side by side

Amazon Nova ProClaude Opus 4.8
ProviderAmazonAnthropic
Noometry Index31.060.7
Released2024-12-032026-05-28
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window300K1M
Max output10K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.80$5
Output $ / M tokens$3.20$25
Results tracked3865

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 35.1 (#229), Claude Opus 4.8: 59.9 (#12)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Coding12701490
DeepSWE—59%
FrontierCode—46.5%
LMArena WebDev—1556
SciCode—53.5%
GSO—47.1%
WeirdML—82.9%
LiveBench Coding38.1%—
ALE-Bench—1,564

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 16.7 (#147), Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#11)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProClaude Opus 4.8
APEX-Agents—48.9%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard25%—
OSWorld 2.0—20.6%
Remote Labor Index—8.3%
TheAgentCompany1.7%—
τ²-bench Banking—39.7%
DeepResearch Bench—50.2%
PostTrainBench—33.8%
GBAEval—70.9%
GDP.pdf—24%
LMArena Search—1204
Vending-Bench 2—5,787

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 20.0 (#243), Claude Opus 4.8: 64.7 (#16)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Hard Prompts12461482
Epoch Capabilities Index123.8158.21
ARC-AGI-2—72.1%
SimpleBench—64.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—88.8%
NYT Connections (extended)—91.1%
ARC-AGI-1—92.5%
CritPt—20.9%
Chess Puzzles—34%
EnigmaEval—23.5%
EBR-Bench—28.6%
LiveBench Reasoning32.6%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—36%
DTBench—94.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis48.3%—
LMCA—57.5%
Surface Evolver Bench—87.5%
Bench to the Future 3—0.14
ForecastBench—59.9
LiveBench43.5%—

Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 28.5 (#243), Claude Opus 4.8: 78.4 (#13)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Math12521487
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—80%
FrontierMath Tier 4—56.1%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—91.8%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—98.3%
ProofBench—69%
Omni-MATH24.2%—
LiveBench Math38%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—47.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—31.3%

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 27.4 (#250), Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#29)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Expert12111502
GPQA Diamond—91%
Humanity's Last Exam4.4%—
SimpleQA Verified—53%
MMLU-Pro67.3%—
Confabulations30.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.1%—
GPQA (HELM)44.6%—
MMLU82%—

Multimodal Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 25.0 (#126), Claude Opus 4.8: 42.9 (#26)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Vision9801294
Blueprint-Bench 2—14.5%
Furniture Assembly—42.5%
LMArena Document—1475

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 39.7 (#223), Claude Opus 4.8: 55.2 (#33)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Non-English12341450
LMArena Chinese12441507
LMArena French12711481
LMArena German12431472
LMArena Japanese12001440
LMArena Korean12031432
LMArena Russian12401474
LMArena Spanish11821466

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 64.9 (#226), Claude Opus 4.8: 77.4 (#24)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Instruction Following12351476
LiveBench Instruction Following67.1%—
IFEval81.5%—

Long Context Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#205), Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#35)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Longer Query12551483

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 43.9 (#226), Claude Opus 4.8: 72.0 (#16)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Text12591461
LMArena Creative Writing12121454
LMArena Multi-Turn12461476
Short-Story Creative Writing60.5%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1840
WildBench77.7%—
EQ-Bench 4—1281
LiveBench Language37%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Pro better than Claude Opus 4.8?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Pro costs 7.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.8's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro or Claude Opus 4.8?

Amazon Nova Pro is cheaper. It lists at $0.80 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Amazon Nova Pro or Claude Opus 4.8 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 35.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.8 does, with 1M tokens against 300K.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Pro and Claude Opus 4.8 share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and Claude Opus 4.8 has 65.

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