Fast and efficient with near-frontier intelligence.
Amazon's previous fast multimodal model for everyday workloads.
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No captured outputs for these models yet.
Both Claude Haiku 4.5 and Nova Lite are capable AI models. The best choice depends on your specific use case: consider pricing, context window, speed, and which capabilities (vision, reasoning, audio) you need.
Nova Lite has a lower blended cost. Claude Haiku 4.5: $1.00 input / $5.00 output. Nova Lite: $0.06 input / $0.24 output.
Nova Lite has a larger context window: Claude Haiku 4.5 supports 200K tokens vs Nova Lite at 300K tokens.
Yes, both Claude Haiku 4.5 and Nova Lite support vision/image input.
Key differences: Nova Lite is significantly cheaper; only Claude Haiku 4.5 offers extended reasoning mode. Compare full specs on this page.
If cost is your priority, choose the cheaper option. If you need the highest intelligence for complex tasks, pick the higher-scoring model. For long documents or codebases, choose the larger context window. You can try both Claude Haiku 4.5 and Nova Lite for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.
