Model comparison

GPT-5 vs Nova 2.0 Pro Preview

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 32.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 OpenAI

50.9

Rank #37 Confirmed

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview Amazon

32.8

Rank #241 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 scores higher in 3 categories and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5 leads 38.3 to 21.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is CritPt: 12.6% for GPT-5 and 0% for Nova 2.0 Pro Preview.

Side by side

GPT-5 and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview specifications
GPT-5Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
ProviderOpenAIAmazon
Noometry Index50.932.8
Released2025-08-072025-12-02
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked693

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 50.7 (#39), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 40.2 (#130)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
SciCode42.9%42.7%
SWE-bench Verified73.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)65%—
Aider Polyglot88%—
LMArena WebDev1417—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML60.7%—
LMArena Coding1436—
ALE-Bench1,162—
AlgoTune1.67—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 33.0 (#53), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 21.9 (#127)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
Terminal-Bench49.6%—
GDPval34.8%—
Remote Labor Index1.7%—
DeepResearch Bench49.6%—
BALROG32.8%—
GDP.pdf—2%
LMArena Search1133—
METR Time Horizons69.6%—

Reasoning GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 38.3 (#55), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 21.7 (#189)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
CritPt12.6%0%
ARC-AGI-29.9%—
SimpleBench56.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark72.7%—
ARC-AGI-165.7%—
Chess Puzzles37%—
EnigmaEval10.5%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1415—
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
DTBench90.7%—
LMCA40%—
Epoch Capabilities Index150—
ForecastBench61.4—

Math Not comparable

GPT-5: 54.6 (#36), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)55.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%—
ProofBench18%—
Omni-MATH64.7%—
LMArena Math1406—
MATH Level 598.1%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)32.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)12.5%—

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5: 56.5 (#37), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
GPQA Diamond86.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam25.3%—
SimpleQA Verified50.1%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)79.2%—
LMArena Expert1420—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5: 46.1 (#12), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
LMArena Vision1232—
GeoBench81%—
VPCT66%—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5: 51.5 (#105), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
LMArena Non-English1397—
LMArena Chinese1423—
LMArena French1409—
LMArena German1415—
LMArena Japanese1411—
LMArena Korean1361—
LMArena Russian1406—
LMArena Spanish1398—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5: 74.0 (#107), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
IFEval87.5%—
LMArena Instruction Following1388—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5: 69.5 (#2), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
Fiction.LiveBench97.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1399—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5: 63.5 (#63), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
LMArena Text1406—
LMArena Creative Writing1365—
Short-Story Creative Writing86%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1627—
WildBench85.7%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1426—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 better than Nova 2.0 Pro Preview?

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 32.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5 or Nova 2.0 Pro Preview better for coding?

GPT-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.7 versus 40.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview has 3.

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