Claude 3 Sonnet vs Nova Micro Comparison

Comparing Claude 3 Sonnet and Nova Micro across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

7 benchmarks

Claude 3 Sonnet outperforms in 3 benchmarks (ARC-C, GPQA, MMLU), while Nova Micro is better at 3 benchmarks (DROP, HumanEval, MATH).

Both models are evenly matched across the benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Nova Micro costs less

For input processing, Claude 3 Sonnet ($3.00/1M tokens) is 100.0x more expensive than Nova Micro ($0.03/1M tokens).

For output processing, Claude 3 Sonnet ($15.00/1M tokens) is 107.1x more expensive than Nova Micro ($0.14/1M tokens).

In conclusion, Claude 3 Sonnet is more expensive than Nova Micro.*

* Using a 3:1 ratio of input to output tokens

Lowest available price from all providers

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Claude 3 Sonnet

Input tokens$3.00

Output tokens$15.00

Best providerAnthropic

Nova Micro

Input tokens$0.03

Output tokens$0.14

Best providerAWS Bedrock

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Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Claude 3 Sonnet accepts 200,000 input tokens compared to Nova Micro's 128,000 tokens. Claude 3 Sonnet can generate longer responses up to 200,000 tokens, while Nova Micro is limited to 128,000 tokens.

Claude 3 Sonnet

Input200,000 tokens

Output200,000 tokens

Nova Micro

Input128,000 tokens

Output128,000 tokens

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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Claude 3 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs, whereas Nova Micro does not.

Claude 3 Sonnet can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Claude 3 Sonnet

Text

Images

Audio

Video

Nova Micro

Text

Images

Audio

Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Both models are licensed under proprietary licenses.

Both models have usage restrictions defined by their respective organizations.

Claude 3 Sonnet

Proprietary

Closed source

Nova Micro

Proprietary

Closed source

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude 3 Sonnet was released on 2024-02-29, while Nova Micro was released on 2024-11-20.

Nova Micro is 9 months newer than Claude 3 Sonnet.

Claude 3 Sonnet

Feb 29, 2024

2.0 years ago

Nova Micro

Nov 20, 2024

1.3 years ago

8mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Provider Availability

Claude 3 Sonnet is available from Anthropic, Bedrock, Google. Nova Micro is available from Bedrock. The availability of providers can affect quality of the model and reliability.