Model comparison
Amazon Nova Pro vs Granite 3.0 8b Instruct
Amazon Nova Pro and Granite 3.0 8b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.0 vs 31.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 5 categories and Granite 3.0 8b Instruct in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Amazon Nova Pro leads 43.9 to 31.1.
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 31.0 | 31.6 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.80 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $3.20 | — |
| Results tracked | 38 | 14 |
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Category by category
Coding Amazon Nova Pro leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 35.1 (#229), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.7 (#301)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1270 | 1112 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 29.3% |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 35.4% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 16.7 (#147), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 25% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 1.7% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Amazon Nova Pro: 20.0 (#243), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 20.9 (#230)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | 1092 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 32.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 123.8 | — |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |
Math Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 28.5 (#243), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 32.8 (#210)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1252 | 1143 |
| Omni-MATH | 24.2% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 38% | — |
Knowledge Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 27.4 (#250), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.6 (#236)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1211 | 1087 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.4% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 30.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 44.6% | — |
| MMLU | 82% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 25.0 (#126), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 980 | — |
Multilingual Amazon Nova Pro leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 39.7 (#223), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 27.2 (#276)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1234 | 1037 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1244 | 1063 |
| LMArena Russian | 1240 | 1060 |
| LMArena French | 1271 | — |
| LMArena German | 1243 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1200 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1203 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1182 | — |
Instruction Following Amazon Nova Pro leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 64.9 (#226), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 56.0 (#276)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1235 | 1088 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.1% | — |
| IFEval | 81.5% | — |
Long Context Amazon Nova Pro leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#205), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 34.0 (#252)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1255 | 1122 |
Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Pro leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 43.9 (#226), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#285)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1259 | 1096 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1212 | 1071 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1246 | 1063 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 60.5% | — |
| WildBench | 77.7% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 37% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Pro better than Granite 3.0 8b Instruct?
Amazon Nova Pro and Granite 3.0 8b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.0 vs 31.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Amazon Nova Pro or Granite 3.0 8b Instruct better for coding?
Amazon Nova Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.1 versus 29.7 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Pro and Granite 3.0 8b Instruct share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has 14.