Claude Haiku 3.5 vs Nova Pro
Too close to call on our weighted score (Nova Pro 49, Claude Haiku 3.5 49). The right pick depends on what you value most.
AnthropicClaude Haiku 3.5
49/100- ECI127.2
- Price—
- Context200K
AmazonNova Pro
49/100- ECI123.8
- Price$0.80 / $3.20
- Context300K
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Too close to call
It is close. Our weighted score puts them within a point (Nova Pro 49/100, Claude Haiku 3.5 49/100), so choose by what matters most for your work: Claude Haiku 3.5 for raw capability, Nova Pro on price and Nova Pro for long inputs. The score weighs capability 67%, inputs & features 20%, context window 13%.
- CapabilityClaude Haiku 3.5Capabilities Index (ECI): Claude Haiku 3.5 127.2 · Nova Pro 123.8
- Lowest priceNova ProNova Pro $1.40 per 1M tokens (3:1 blend) · Claude Haiku 3.5 unpriced
- Longest contextNova ProNova Pro 300,000 · Claude Haiku 3.5 200,000 tokens
- Widest inputsNova ProClaude Haiku 3.5: Text, Images, PDFs · Nova Pro: Text, Images, PDFs, Video
- Self-hostingNo open weightsBoth are available only through APIs
| Measure | Weight | Claude Haiku 3.5 | Nova Pro |
|---|---|---|---|
| CapabilityCapabilities Index (ECI) | 67% | 49 | 45 |
| Inputs & features | 20% | 60 | 70 |
| Context window | 13% | 32 | 39 |
| Overall | 100% | 49/100 | 49/100 |
Left out because at least one model lacks the data: price. The remaining weights were rescaled.
Every spec in one table
Highlighted cells lead their row. Dashes mean the data is not published.
| Specification | Claude Haiku 3.5Anthropic | Nova ProAmazon |
|---|---|---|
| Capability | ||
| Capabilities Index (ECI) | 127.2 (best) | 123.8 |
| ECI rank | #134 of 148 (best) | #137 of 148 |
| GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions | 38.1% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025Competition mathematics | 4.3% | — |
| Price per million tokens | ||
| Input | — | $0.80 |
| Output | — | $3.20 |
| Cached input | — | $0.20 |
| Blended (3:1) | — | $1.40 |
| Long-context rate | — | Same rate |
| Price source | — | Official Amazon Bedrock API |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 200,000 tokens | 300,000 tokens (best) |
| Max output | 8,192 tokens | 10,000 tokens (best) |
| Inputs and features | ||
| Text | Yes | Yes |
| Images | Yes | Yes |
| PDFs | Yes | Yes |
| Audio | No | No |
| Video | No | Yes |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | No | No |
| Availability | ||
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| API model ID | — | amazon.nova-pro-v1:0 |
| API providers | — | 3 |
| Released | Oct 22, 2024 | Dec 3, 2024 |
| Knowledge cutoff | Jul 31, 2024 | Oct 2024 |
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- Claude Haiku 3.5—
- Nova Pro$14.40
Which should you choose?
Which is better: Claude Haiku 3.5 or Nova Pro?
It is close. Our weighted score puts them within a point (Nova Pro 49/100, Claude Haiku 3.5 49/100), so choose by what matters most for your work: Claude Haiku 3.5 for raw capability, Nova Pro on price and Nova Pro for long inputs. The score weighs capability 67%, inputs & features 20%, context window 13%.
Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 3.5 or Nova Pro?
Nova Pro is cheaper at $0.80 input / $3.20 output per million tokens (official Amazon Bedrock API price). . At a typical mix of three input tokens to one output token, that is $1.40 per million tokens for Nova Pro versus . Claude Haiku 3.5 has no published per-token price.
Which scores higher on benchmarks?
Claude Haiku 3.5 scores higher on the Capabilities Index (ECI): Claude Haiku 3.5 127.2 (#134 of 148) and Nova Pro 123.8 (#137 of 148). The confidence ranges of the top two overlap (120.7–129.7 vs 108.8–126.6), so treat the gap as small.
Which is better for coding?
There are no published SWE-bench Verified results for Claude Haiku 3.5 and Nova Pro yet, so there is no like-for-like coding score. On overall capability, Claude Haiku 3.5 leads, which tends to carry over to coding, but test on your own codebase. Both support tool calling for agent workflows.
Which has the bigger context window?
Nova Pro has the largest context window at 300,000 tokens, against 200,000 for Claude Haiku 3.5. Maximum output per response: Claude Haiku 3.5 up to 8,192, Nova Pro up to 10,000 tokens.
Which can read images, PDFs, audio or video?
Claude Haiku 3.5 accepts text, images and PDFs; Nova Pro accepts text, images, PDFs and video. Nova Pro handles the widest range of inputs.
Are any of these open source?
No. Claude Haiku 3.5 and Nova Pro are proprietary and only available through APIs and apps.
Which is newer?
Nova Pro is the newest, released Dec 3, 2024. Claude Haiku 3.5 came out Oct 22, 2024. Knowledge cutoff: Claude Haiku 3.5 Jul 31, 2024, Nova Pro Oct 2024.
How do you decide the winner?
Each model gets a 0–100 score on capability (50%, independent benchmark results); price (25%, blended price per million tokens (3 input : 1 output), log scale); inputs & features (15%, image, PDF, audio and video input, tool calling, structured output and reasoning); context window (10%, maximum tokens per request, log scale). Dimensions missing for any model are dropped and the remaining weights rescaled, so every model is judged on the same evidence. Specs and prices come from public model listings and the labs’ own API pages; capability scores come from independent benchmark runs. Data updated Oct 4, 2026.
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