Model comparison
Amazon Nova Pro vs Qwen3 8B
Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3 8B in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Qwen3 8B leads 30.2 to 16.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 25% for Amazon Nova Pro and 42.6% for Qwen3 8B.
- Qwen3 8B is cheaper at $0.18 / $0.70 per million input/output tokens, against $0.80 / $3.20 for Amazon Nova Pro.
- Amazon Nova Pro accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 131K.
- Qwen3 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.0 | 33.7 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | 131K |
| Max output | 10K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.80 | $0.18 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $3.20 | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 38 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Amazon Nova Pro leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 35.1 (#229), Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1270 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3 8B leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 16.7 (#147), Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 25% | 42.6% |
| TheAgentCompany | 1.7% | — |
Reasoning Amazon Nova Pro leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 20.0 (#243), Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 123.8 | 136.17 |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 32.6% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | — |
| DTBench | — | 59.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.3% | — |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |
Math Qwen3 8B leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 28.5 (#243), Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 56.1% |
| Omni-MATH | 24.2% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 38% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1252 | — |
Knowledge Qwen3 8B leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 27.4 (#250), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | 4.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.4% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 30.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 44.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1211 | — |
| MMLU | 82% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 25.0 (#126), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 980 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 39.7 (#223), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 64.9 (#226), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.1% | — |
| IFEval | 81.5% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1235 | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#205), Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1255 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 43.9 (#226), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1259 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1212 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 60.5% | — |
| WildBench | 77.7% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1246 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 37% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Pro better than Qwen3 8B?
Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro or Qwen3 8B?
Qwen3 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.18 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; Amazon Nova Pro lists at $0.80 and $3.20.
Is Amazon Nova Pro or Qwen3 8B better for coding?
Amazon Nova Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.1 versus 34.0 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 Qwen3 8B share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.