Model comparison

Amazon Nova Pro vs Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.0 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Pro Amazon

31.0

Rank #281 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B Alibaba (Qwen)

46.0

Rank #67 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 397B-A17B in 10 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5 397B-A17B leads 53.3 to 27.4.
  • Both cost about the same: $0.80 input and $3.20 output per million tokens.
  • Amazon Nova Pro accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 262K.
  • Qwen3.5 397B-A17B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova Pro and Qwen3.5 397B-A17B specifications
Amazon Nova ProQwen3.5 397B-A17B
ProviderAmazonAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index31.046.0
Released2024-12-032026-02-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window300K262K
Max output10K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.80$0.60
Output $ / M tokens$3.20$3.60
Results tracked3836

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5 397B-A17B leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 35.1 (#229), Qwen3.5 397B-A17B: 42.0 (#114)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProQwen3.5 397B-A17B
LMArena Coding12701465
LMArena WebDev—1400
LiveBench Coding38.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3.5 397B-A17B leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 16.7 (#147), Qwen3.5 397B-A17B: 33.3 (#53)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProQwen3.5 397B-A17B
APEX-Agents—24.9%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard25%—
TheAgentCompany1.7%—
τ²-bench Airline—81.5%
τ²-bench Banking—9.8%
τ²-bench Retail—84.4%
τ²-bench Telecom—97.8%

Reasoning Qwen3.5 397B-A17B leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 20.0 (#243), Qwen3.5 397B-A17B: 34.5 (#70)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProQwen3.5 397B-A17B
LMArena Hard Prompts12461448
Epoch Capabilities Index123.8146.65
Kagi LLM Benchmark—73.7%
NYT Connections (extended)—58.9%
Chess Puzzles—13%
Thematic Generalization—65.1%
LiveBench Reasoning32.6%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—18%
DTBench—87.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis48.3%—
LMCA—37.9%
LiveBench43.5%—

Math Qwen3.5 397B-A17B leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 28.5 (#243), Qwen3.5 397B-A17B: 46.1 (#73)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProQwen3.5 397B-A17B
LMArena Math12521454
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—31.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—88.9%
Omni-MATH24.2%—
LiveBench Math38%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5 397B-A17B leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 27.4 (#250), Qwen3.5 397B-A17B: 53.3 (#58)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProQwen3.5 397B-A17B
LMArena Expert12111462
GPQA Diamond—86.4%
Humanity's Last Exam4.4%—
MMLU-Pro67.3%—
Confabulations30.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.1%—
GPQA (HELM)44.6%—
MMLU82%—

Multimodal Qwen3.5 397B-A17B leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 25.0 (#126), Qwen3.5 397B-A17B: 40.7 (#44)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProQwen3.5 397B-A17B
LMArena Vision9801263

Multilingual Qwen3.5 397B-A17B leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 39.7 (#223), Qwen3.5 397B-A17B: 53.7 (#59)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProQwen3.5 397B-A17B
LMArena Non-English12341430
LMArena Chinese12441500
LMArena French12711461
LMArena German12431447
LMArena Japanese12001426
LMArena Korean12031384
LMArena Russian12401429
LMArena Spanish11821441

Instruction Following Qwen3.5 397B-A17B leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 64.9 (#226), Qwen3.5 397B-A17B: 75.0 (#77)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProQwen3.5 397B-A17B
LMArena Instruction Following12351424
LiveBench Instruction Following67.1%—
IFEval81.5%—

Long Context Qwen3.5 397B-A17B leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#205), Qwen3.5 397B-A17B: 44.1 (#74)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProQwen3.5 397B-A17B
LMArena Longer Query12551442

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 397B-A17B leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 43.9 (#226), Qwen3.5 397B-A17B: 62.3 (#79)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProQwen3.5 397B-A17B
LMArena Text12591438
LMArena Creative Writing12121401
LMArena Multi-Turn12461446
Short-Story Creative Writing60.5%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1478
WildBench77.7%—
LiveBench Language37%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Pro better than Qwen3.5 397B-A17B?

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.0 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro or Qwen3.5 397B-A17B?

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B is cheaper. It lists at $0.60 per million input tokens and $3.60 per million output tokens; Amazon Nova Pro lists at $0.80 and $3.20.

Is Amazon Nova Pro or Qwen3.5 397B-A17B better for coding?

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.0 versus 35.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Pro does, with 300K tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Pro and Qwen3.5 397B-A17B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 397B-A17B has 36.

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