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Amazon Nova 2 Sonic vs Claude Sonnet 4.6

Updated August 4, 2026. Public scores include evidence status and uncertainty. They are not guarantees for a specific workload.

Amazon Nova 2 Sonic

Amazon

—

Evidence status unavailable

90% interval unavailable

Claude Sonnet 4.6

Anthropic

64.3/100

Supported · Public rank #36

90% interval 52.0–76.5

The public evidence has no benchmark result shared by both models, so it does not support a quality verdict. Use the documented cost, context, and runtime rows instead.

0 results are shared. Category rows based on different benchmark sets are marked directional and do not name a winner.

Which one for your work

Recommendations appear only when a shared evidence basis or an explicit operating constraint supports the call. Secondary and unsupported use cases stay disclosed below the initial list.

No workload recommendation clears the current evidence threshold.

Use the matched evidence, workload costs, and sourced specifications below instead of treating a point score as a universal answer.

Show secondary and unsupported calls

  • Coding work

    Code generation, repair, and software-engineering tasks

    Not enough matched evidence

    No shared weighted benchmark basis supports a winner.

    Confidence: limited

  • Agentic work

    Tool use, computer use, and multi-step task completion

    Not enough matched evidence

    No shared weighted benchmark basis supports a winner.

    Confidence: limited

  • Long documents

    Prompts that approach the documented context limit

    Not enough matched evidence

    A complete context comparison is not sourced.

    Confidence: limited

  • Chat turn cost

    1K fresh input + 500 output tokens

    Not enough matched evidence

    A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.

    Confidence: listed-rates

  • Cache-heavy agent loop cost

    200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens

    Not enough matched evidence

    The page does not recommend a cost winner because at least one model cannot fit the stated workload in one request. Claude Sonnet 4.6 does not fit this workload in one request. Claude Sonnet 4.6 has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate. Amazon Nova 2 Sonic has no comparable published API token rate.

    Confidence: rate-fallback

  • Repository review cost

    50K fresh input + 3K output tokens

    Not enough matched evidence

    A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.

    Confidence: listed-rates

What is actually comparable

Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results present for only one model describe coverage, not superiority.

Shared results
0
Amazon Nova 2 Sonic only
0
Claude Sonnet 4.6 only
20
Like-for-like categories
0 / 8

Category results, on a stated basis

Each row states whether both averages use the same weighted benchmark set. Directional and not-comparable rows remain visible, but they never receive a winner in this template.

Agentic

Not comparable
Amazon Nova 2 Sonic
Not measured
Claude Sonnet 4.6
65.2
Weighted basis
0 vs 2 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Coding

Not comparable
Amazon Nova 2 Sonic
Not measured
Claude Sonnet 4.6
69.1
Weighted basis
0 vs 2 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Reasoning

Not comparable
Amazon Nova 2 Sonic
Not measured
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Not measured
Weighted basis
0 vs 0 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Knowledge

Not comparable
Amazon Nova 2 Sonic
Not measured
Claude Sonnet 4.6
66.0
Weighted basis
0 vs 4 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Math

Not comparable
Amazon Nova 2 Sonic
Not measured
Claude Sonnet 4.6
26.4
Weighted basis
0 vs 2 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Multilingual

Not comparable
Amazon Nova 2 Sonic
Not measured
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Not measured
Weighted basis
0 vs 0 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Multimodal

Not comparable
Amazon Nova 2 Sonic
Not measured
Claude Sonnet 4.6
77.4
Weighted basis
0 vs 1 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Instruction following

Not comparable
Amazon Nova 2 Sonic
Not measured
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Not measured
Weighted basis
0 vs 0 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Shape of the matched evidence

Only shared public evidence is shown. Sparse evidence stays a ruled list rather than being closed into a radar shape.

A shared-evidence shape is not available.

BenchLM does not draw a radar or infer missing axes when the matched evidence is too sparse.

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes turn per-token rates into comparable decisions. Each scenario states context fit and whether cached input had to fall back to the published list-input rate.

Chat turn

1K fresh input + 500 output tokens

Amazon Nova 2 Sonic
API rate not published
Fit state unavailable
Claude Sonnet 4.6
$0.0105
Fits in one request

Amazon Nova 2 Sonic has no comparable published API token rate.

Repository review

50K fresh input + 3K output tokens

Amazon Nova 2 Sonic
API rate not published
Fit state unavailable
Claude Sonnet 4.6
$0.195
Fits in one request

Amazon Nova 2 Sonic has no comparable published API token rate.

Cache-heavy agent loop

200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens

Amazon Nova 2 Sonic
API rate not published
Fit state unavailable
Cached-input rate unavailable
Claude Sonnet 4.6
$0.81
Does not fit in one request
Cached input priced at the published list-input rate

Claude Sonnet 4.6 does not fit this workload in one request. Claude Sonnet 4.6 has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate. Amazon Nova 2 Sonic has no comparable published API token rate.

Specification differences

Sourced differences are shown directly. Missing facts stay explicit instead of being inferred from a model name or family.

Context window

Maximum documented context; output-token limits may be lower.

Amazon Nova 2 Sonic

N/A

Claude Sonnet 4.6

200K

Cached-input rate

A missing cached-input rate falls back to the listed input rate only in the stated workload estimate.

Amazon Nova 2 Sonic

No comparable hosted API rate

Amazon model documentation

Claude Sonnet 4.6

Not published

Documented inputs

Amazon Nova 2 Sonic

Not sourced

Claude Sonnet 4.6

Not sourced

Documented outputs

Amazon Nova 2 Sonic

Not sourced

Claude Sonnet 4.6

Not sourced

Provider availability

Amazon Nova 2 Sonic

Not sourced

Claude Sonnet 4.6

Not sourced

Reasoning profile

Amazon Nova 2 Sonic

Non-Reasoning

Claude Sonnet 4.6

Non-Reasoning

Weight access

Amazon Nova 2 Sonic

Proprietary

Claude Sonnet 4.6

Proprietary

License

Amazon Nova 2 Sonic

Proprietary

Claude Sonnet 4.6

Proprietary

Release date

Amazon Nova 2 Sonic

Not sourced

Claude Sonnet 4.6

2026-02-01

If you already use one of these models
Deployment change
The models list different providers, so authentication, endpoint behavior, limits, and feature support may change.
Quality signal
The public evidence has no benchmark result shared by both models, so it does not support a quality verdict.
Workload cost
A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
Context tradeoff
A complete documented context comparison is not available.

Run the same representative tasks against both endpoints before changing production traffic.

Benchmark evidence

The full public result ledger is available for audit without forcing a wide desktop table onto a phone.

Browse raw public benchmark evidence20 rows

Agentic

  • Terminal-Bench 2.0

    Amazon Nova 2 Sonic—
    Claude Sonnet 4.659.1%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • OSWorld-Verified

    Amazon Nova 2 Sonic—
    Claude Sonnet 4.672.1%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • Claw-Eval

    Amazon Nova 2 Sonic—
    Claude Sonnet 4.667.8%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • CyberGym

    Amazon Nova 2 Sonic—
    Claude Sonnet 4.665.2%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • Gert Labs

    Amazon Nova 2 Sonic—
    Claude Sonnet 4.662.92%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • OSWorld 2.0

    Amazon Nova 2 Sonic—
    Claude Sonnet 4.68.3%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • JobBench

    Amazon Nova 2 Sonic—
    Claude Sonnet 4.636.9%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

Coding

  • SWE-bench Verified

    Amazon Nova 2 Sonic—
    Claude Sonnet 4.679.6%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • SWE-Rebench

    Amazon Nova 2 Sonic—
    Claude Sonnet 4.660.7%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • React Native Evals

    Amazon Nova 2 Sonic—
    Claude Sonnet 4.680.6%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • Vibe Code Bench

    Amazon Nova 2 Sonic—
    Claude Sonnet 4.651.48%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • cursorBench31

    Amazon Nova 2 Sonic—
    Claude Sonnet 4.648.8%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • FrontierCode 1.1 Main

    Amazon Nova 2 Sonic—
    Claude Sonnet 4.624.3%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

Knowledge

  • GPQA

    Amazon Nova 2 Sonic—
    Claude Sonnet 4.689.9%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • SuperGPQA

    Amazon Nova 2 Sonic—
    Claude Sonnet 4.695%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • MMLU-Pro

    Amazon Nova 2 Sonic—
    Claude Sonnet 4.679.2%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • HLE

    Amazon Nova 2 Sonic—
    Claude Sonnet 4.649%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

Math

  • FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)

    Amazon Nova 2 Sonic—
    Claude Sonnet 4.632.400%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4)

    Amazon Nova 2 Sonic—
    Claude Sonnet 4.68.300%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

Multimodal

  • CharXiv

    Amazon Nova 2 Sonic—
    Claude Sonnet 4.677.4%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

Frequently asked questions

Which is better, Amazon Nova 2 Sonic or Claude Sonnet 4.6?

The public evidence has no benchmark result shared by both models, so it does not support a quality verdict. The page therefore keeps the decision tied to the specific documented workload.

Which is better for coding, Amazon Nova 2 Sonic or Claude Sonnet 4.6?

The published evidence does not provide a shared weighted coding basis for both models, so BenchLM does not name a coding winner.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Amazon Nova 2 Sonic or Claude Sonnet 4.6?

The published evidence does not provide a shared weighted agentic tasks basis for both models, so BenchLM does not name a agentic tasks winner.

Which costs less, Amazon Nova 2 Sonic or Claude Sonnet 4.6?

Both models do not have comparable published API token rates, so this page does not name a universal price winner.

Which has the larger context window, Amazon Nova 2 Sonic or Claude Sonnet 4.6?

A complete documented context-window comparison is not available.

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