Model comparison

Amazon Nova Pro vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Amazon Nova Pro and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.0 vs 31.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Pro Amazon

31.0

Rank #281 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

31.9

Rank #267 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Pro leads 28.5 to 19.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Confabulations: 30.1% for Amazon Nova Pro and 19.1% for Qwen2.5 72B Instruct.
  • Amazon Nova Pro is cheaper at $0.80 / $3.20 per million input/output tokens, against $1.40 / $5.60 for Qwen2.5 72B Instruct.
  • Amazon Nova Pro accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova Pro and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct specifications
Amazon Nova ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
ProviderAmazonAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index31.031.9
Released2024-12-032024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window300K131K
Max output10K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.80$1.40
Output $ / M tokens$3.20$5.60
Results tracked3843

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Category by category

Coding Amazon Nova Pro leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 35.1 (#229), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 33.2 (#260)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Coding12701292
WeirdML—16%
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.8%
LiveBench Coding38.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete—55.9%

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 16.7 (#147), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.1 (#133)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
TheAgentCompany1.7%5.7%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard25%—
BALROG—16.2%
METR Time Horizons—35.8%

Reasoning Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 20.0 (#243), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.3 (#199)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts12461271
Epoch Capabilities Index123.8129
LiveBench Reasoning32.6%—
DTBench—62.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis48.3%—
LMCA—13.4%
BIG-Bench Hard—79.8%
ForecastBench—57.5
HellaSwag—84.8%
LiveBench43.5%—
PIQA—82.6%
WinoGrande—82.3%

Math Amazon Nova Pro leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 28.5 (#243), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 19.3 (#287)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
Omni-MATH24.2%33%
LMArena Math12521283
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—8.1%
LiveBench Math38%—
MATH Level 5—63.2%

Knowledge Too close to call

Amazon Nova Pro: 27.4 (#250), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 27.0 (#253)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
MMLU-Pro67.3%63.1%
Confabulations30.1%19.1%
GPQA (HELM)44.6%42.6%
LMArena Expert12111245
MMLU82%85.3%
GPQA Diamond—49.1%
Humanity's Last Exam4.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.1%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—94.5%
TriviaQA—71.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Pro: 25.0 (#126), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Vision980—

Multilingual Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 39.7 (#223), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 41.0 (#213)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Non-English12341252
LMArena Chinese12441272
LMArena French12711280
LMArena German12431234
LMArena Japanese12001180
LMArena Korean12031188
LMArena Russian12401264
LMArena Spanish11821256

Instruction Following Too close to call

Amazon Nova Pro: 64.9 (#226), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 65.5 (#221)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
IFEval81.5%80.6%
LMArena Instruction Following12351254
LiveBench Instruction Following67.1%—

Long Context Too close to call

Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#205), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 38.9 (#188)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query12551282

Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 43.9 (#226), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 46.7 (#215)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Text12591269
LMArena Creative Writing12121221
WildBench77.7%80.2%
LMArena Multi-Turn12461272
Short-Story Creative Writing60.5%—
LiveBench Language37%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Pro better than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?

Amazon Nova Pro and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.0 vs 31.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro or Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?

Amazon Nova Pro is cheaper. It lists at $0.80 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5 72B Instruct lists at $1.40 and $5.60.

Is Amazon Nova Pro or Qwen2.5 72B Instruct better for coding?

Amazon Nova Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.1 versus 33.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Pro does, with 300K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Pro and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has 43.

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