Model comparison
Amazon Nova Pro vs Phi-4
Amazon Nova Pro and Phi-4 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.0 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 30 shared benchmarks.
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 30 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 7 categories and Phi-4 in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Pro leads 28.5 to 20.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Reasoning: 32.6% for Amazon Nova Pro and 47.8% for Phi-4.
- Phi-4 is cheaper at $0.07 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.80 / $3.20 for Amazon Nova Pro.
- Amazon Nova Pro accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 128K.
- Phi-4 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Pro | Phi-4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 31.0 | 31.2 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-12-11 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | 128K |
| Max output | 10K | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.80 | $0.07 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $3.20 | $0.14 |
| Results tracked | 38 | 37 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Amazon Nova Pro: 35.1 (#229), Phi-4: 34.4 (#239)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 38.1% | 30.7% |
| LMArena Coding | 1270 | 1231 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 55.4% |
Agentic & Tool Use Phi-4 leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 16.7 (#147), Phi-4: 22.8 (#128)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 25% | 28.8% |
| TheAgentCompany | 1.7% | — |
| BALROG | — | 11.6% |
Reasoning Amazon Nova Pro leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 20.0 (#243), Phi-4: 17.7 (#291)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 32.6% | 47.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | 1220 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.3% | 45.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 123.8 | 130.42 |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | 41.6% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
Math Amazon Nova Pro leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 28.5 (#243), Phi-4: 20.8 (#285)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 38% | 42% |
| LMArena Math | 1252 | 1246 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 13.8% |
| Omni-MATH | 24.2% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 64.9% |
Knowledge Phi-4 leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 27.4 (#250), Phi-4: 32.6 (#209)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| Confabulations | 30.1% | 29.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | 3.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1211 | 1203 |
| MMLU | 82% | 84.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.1% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.4% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 44.6% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 25.0 (#126), Phi-4: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 980 | — |
Multilingual Amazon Nova Pro leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 39.7 (#223), Phi-4: 37.2 (#237)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1234 | 1197 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1244 | 1212 |
| LMArena French | 1271 | 1224 |
| LMArena German | 1243 | 1222 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1200 | 1158 |
| LMArena Korean | 1203 | 1151 |
| LMArena Russian | 1240 | 1209 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1182 | 1234 |
Instruction Following Amazon Nova Pro leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 64.9 (#226), Phi-4: 60.4 (#251)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.1% | 58.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1235 | 1201 |
| IFEval | 81.5% | — |
Long Context Amazon Nova Pro leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#205), Phi-4: 36.9 (#226)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1255 | 1217 |
Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Pro leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 43.9 (#226), Phi-4: 40.5 (#244)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1259 | 1217 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1212 | 1182 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 60.5% | 62.6% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1246 | 1206 |
| LiveBench Language | 37% | 25.6% |
| WildBench | 77.7% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Pro better than Phi-4?
Amazon Nova Pro and Phi-4 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.0 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro or Phi-4?
Phi-4 is cheaper. It lists at $0.07 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Amazon Nova Pro lists at $0.80 and $3.20.
Is Amazon Nova Pro or Phi-4 better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (35.1 vs 34.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.
Which has the bigger context window?
Amazon Nova Pro does, with 300K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Pro and Phi-4 share?
30 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.