Model comparison

Amazon Nova Pro vs Inkling

Inkling is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Pro costs 1.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Inkling's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Pro Amazon

31.0

Rank #281 Confirmed

Inkling Thinking Machines Lab

44.1

Rank #80 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 1 category and Inkling in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Inkling leads 55.1 to 27.4.
  • Amazon Nova Pro is cheaper at $0.80 / $3.20 per million input/output tokens, against $1.87 / $4.68 for Inkling.
  • Amazon Nova Pro accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 66K.
  • Inkling has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova Pro and Inkling specifications
Amazon Nova ProInkling
ProviderAmazonThinking Machines Lab
Noometry Index31.044.1
Released2024-12-032026-07-15
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window300K66K
Max output10K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.80$1.87
Output $ / M tokens$3.20$4.68
Results tracked3841

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Amazon Nova Pro: 35.1 (#229), Inkling: 34.5 (#234)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProInkling
LMArena Coding12701464
FrontierCode—14%
LMArena WebDev—1413
FrontierSWE—4.1%
SciCode—47%
WeirdML—32.3%
LiveBench Coding38.1%—
ALE-Bench—946

Agentic & Tool Use Inkling leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 16.7 (#147), Inkling: 29.6 (#85)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProInkling
APEX-Agents—33.8%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard25%—
TheAgentCompany1.7%—
τ²-bench Banking—25%

Reasoning Inkling leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 20.0 (#243), Inkling: 40.4 (#56)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProInkling
LMArena Hard Prompts12461451
Epoch Capabilities Index123.8148.54
ARC-AGI-2—36.5%
SimpleBench—50%
ARC-AGI-1—79.5%
CritPt—5.4%
Chess Puzzles—21%
LiveBench Reasoning32.6%—
DTBench—87.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis48.3%—
LMCA—37.6%
LiveBench43.5%—

Math Inkling leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 28.5 (#243), Inkling: 31.3 (#225)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProInkling
LMArena Math12521479
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—33.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4—4.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—88.9%
ProofBench—0%
Omni-MATH24.2%—
LiveBench Math38%—

Knowledge Inkling leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 27.4 (#250), Inkling: 55.1 (#49)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProInkling
LMArena Expert12111465
GPQA Diamond—88.3%
Humanity's Last Exam4.4%—
SimpleQA Verified—40.3%
MMLU-Pro67.3%—
Confabulations30.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.1%—
GPQA (HELM)44.6%—
MMLU82%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Pro: 25.0 (#126), Inkling: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProInkling
LMArena Vision980—

Multilingual Inkling leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 39.7 (#223), Inkling: 54.0 (#52)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProInkling
LMArena Non-English12341434
LMArena Chinese12441490
LMArena French12711458
LMArena German12431446
LMArena Japanese12001429
LMArena Korean12031404
LMArena Russian12401429
LMArena Spanish11821448

Instruction Following Inkling leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 64.9 (#226), Inkling: 75.1 (#71)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProInkling
LMArena Instruction Following12351426
LiveBench Instruction Following67.1%—
IFEval81.5%—

Long Context Inkling leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#205), Inkling: 43.8 (#86)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProInkling
LMArena Longer Query12551434

Writing & Preference Inkling leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 43.9 (#226), Inkling: 65.2 (#51)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProInkling
LMArena Text12591441
LMArena Creative Writing12121387
LMArena Multi-Turn12461436
Short-Story Creative Writing60.5%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1611
WildBench77.7%—
EQ-Bench 4—1226
LiveBench Language37%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Pro better than Inkling?

Inkling is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Pro costs 1.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Inkling's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro or Inkling?

Amazon Nova Pro is cheaper. It lists at $0.80 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens; Inkling lists at $1.87 and $4.68.

Is Amazon Nova Pro or Inkling better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (35.1 vs 34.5); test both on your own repository before choosing.

Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Pro does, with 300K tokens against 66K.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Pro and Inkling share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and Inkling has 41.

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