Amazon Nova Premier 1.0 vs Perplexity Sonar Pro
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Nova Premier 1.0 is 1.2× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Nova Premier 1.0 accepts longer prompts: 1M vs 200K tokens.
- Sonar Pro's best provider was more reliable over 24 h: 100% vs 0.0%.
- Nova Premier 1.0 is the newer model (released 2025-10-31).
| Nova Premier 1.0 | Sonar Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Amazon | Perplexity |
| Released | 2025-10-31 | 2025-03-07 |
| Input / 1M | $2.50 | $3.00 |
| Output / 1M | $12.50 | $15.00 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.625 | — |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $5.00 | $6.00 |
| Context | 1M | 200K |
| Max output | 32K | 8K |
| Accepts | text, image | text, image |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $12.50 | $15.00 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 0.0% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | — | Operational |
Cost calculator
Nova Premier 1.0
$338 per month$11.25 per day
Sonar Pro
$405 per month$13.50 per day
Nova Premier 1.0 saves $67.50 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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