Model comparison
Amazon Nova Pro vs Nova Premier 1.0
Nova Premier 1.0 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Pro costs 3.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Nova Premier 1.0's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 0 categories and Nova Premier 1.0 in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Nova Premier 1.0 leads 35.8 to 27.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Omni-MATH: 24.2% for Amazon Nova Pro and 35% for Nova Premier 1.0.
- Amazon Nova Pro is cheaper at $0.80 / $3.20 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $12.50 for Nova Premier 1.0.
- Nova Premier 1.0 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 300K.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Pro | Nova Premier 1.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Amazon |
| Noometry Index | 31.0 | 38.3 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2025-04-30 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 300K | 1M |
| Max output | 10K | 10K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.80 | $2.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $3.20 | $12.50 |
| Results tracked | 38 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 35.1 (#229), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 38.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1270 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 16.7 (#147), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 25% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 1.7% | — |
Reasoning Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 20.0 (#243), Nova Premier 1.0: 23.0 (#185)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 44.8% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 32.6% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 123.8 | — |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |
Math Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 28.5 (#243), Nova Premier 1.0: 33.8 (#199)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 24.2% | 35% |
| LiveBench Math | 38% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1252 | — |
Knowledge Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 27.4 (#250), Nova Premier 1.0: 35.8 (#180)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 67.3% | 72.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 44.6% | 51.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 30.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1211 | — |
| MMLU | 82% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 25.0 (#126), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 980 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 39.7 (#223), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1234 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1244 | — |
| LMArena French | 1271 | — |
| LMArena German | 1243 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1200 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1203 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1240 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1182 | — |
Instruction Following Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 64.9 (#226), Nova Premier 1.0: 66.8 (#204)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 81.5% | 80.3% |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.1% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1235 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#205), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1255 | — |
Writing & Preference Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 43.9 (#226), Nova Premier 1.0: 51.0 (#178)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| WildBench | 77.7% | 78.8% |
| LMArena Text | 1259 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1212 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 60.5% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1246 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 37% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Pro better than Nova Premier 1.0?
Nova Premier 1.0 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Pro costs 3.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Nova Premier 1.0's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro or Nova Premier 1.0?
Amazon Nova Pro is cheaper. It lists at $0.80 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens; Nova Premier 1.0 lists at $2.50 and $12.50.
Which has the bigger context window?
Nova Premier 1.0 does, with 1M tokens against 300K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Pro and Nova Premier 1.0 share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and Nova Premier 1.0 has 6.