Amazon Nova Premier vs Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5

Detailed comparison for LLMs

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On Guardion's LLM vulnerability Benchmark, Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the more secure of the two: Nova Premier scores 20.0% and Claude Sonnet 4.5 scores 4.2% on attack success rate (ASR) (lower is better). One or both scores are estimated from public safety evaluations pending a Guardion benchmark run.

Head-to-Head Overview

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the overall winner in this comparison!

Attack Success Rate (lower is safer)

ASR for Amazon Nova Premier vs Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5. Green marks the safer model on each metric. Only the overall score is available for estimated models.

Overall (ASR)

Nova Premier
20.0%
Claude Sonnet 4.5
4.2%

TAP Attack Method (ASR)

Nova Premier
Claude Sonnet 4.5
100.0%

Crescendo Attack Method (ASR)

Nova Premier
Claude Sonnet 4.5
100.0%

Zero-Shot (ASR)

Nova Premier
Claude Sonnet 4.5
100.0%

Key Highlights

  • Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 has a lower Overall (ASR).

Security Profile

Outward is better on every axis.

OverallTAPCrescendoZero-Shot
Nova Premier
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Full security profile
Amazon Nova Premier
Full security profile
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Premier or Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 more secure?

On Guardion's LLM vulnerability Benchmark, Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the more secure of the two: Nova Premier scores 20.0% and Claude Sonnet 4.5 scores 4.2% on attack success rate (ASR) (lower is better). One or both scores are estimated from public safety evaluations pending a Guardion benchmark run.

What is the attack success rate (ASR) of Nova Premier vs Claude Sonnet 4.5?

Nova Premier has a 20.0% ASR and Claude Sonnet 4.5 has a 4.2% ASR — the share of adversarial prompts that succeed across zero-shot, TAP, and Crescendo attacks. Lower is safer.

How were Nova Premier and Claude Sonnet 4.5 tested?

Both were red-teamed with the HarmBench framework across zero-shot, TAP (Tree of Attacks with Pruning), and Crescendo multi-turn attacks, scored by Attack Success Rate.

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