# Amazon Nova Pro vs GLM-5.3

> GLM-5.3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.6 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Pro costs 1.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-5.3's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-pro-vs-glm-5-3
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 0 categories and GLM-5.3 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where GLM-5.3 leads 62.1 to 26.4.
- Amazon Nova Pro is cheaper at $0.80 / $3.20 per million input/output tokens, against $1.40 / $4.40 for GLM-5.3.
- GLM-5.3 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 300K.
- GLM-5.3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Pro | GLM-5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Z.ai (Zhipu) |
| Noometry Index | 30.5 | 54.6 |
| Rank | 278 | 25 |
| Context | 300K | 1M |
| Input $/M | $0.80 | $1.40 |
| Output $/M | $3.20 | $4.40 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Pro: 34.6 (#224)
- GLM-5.3: 59.0 (#12)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | GLM-5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1270 | 1499 |
| DeepSWE | — | 69% |
| FrontierCode | — | 40.1% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1623 |
| FrontierSWE | — | 30.2% |
| SciCode | — | 59% |
| WeirdML | — | 75.4% |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.1% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 1,317 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Pro: 16.6 (#139)
- GLM-5.3: 36.3 (#34)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | GLM-5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 56.6% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 25% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 1.7% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 8,164 |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Pro: 19.2 (#240)
- GLM-5.3: 45.2 (#42)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | GLM-5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | 1491 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 123.75 | 155.56 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 74.2% |
| CritPt | — | 19.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 21% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 32.6% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 33% |
| DTBench | — | 87.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.3% | — |
| LMCA | — | 55.5% |
| Bench to the Future 3 | — | 0.15 |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Pro: 26.4 (#240)
- GLM-5.3: 62.1 (#27)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | GLM-5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1252 | 1493 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 68.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 29.3% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 91.1% |
| ProofBench | — | 49% |
| Omni-MATH | 24.2% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 38% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Pro: 27.1 (#246)
- GLM-5.3: 58.3 (#34)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | GLM-5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1211 | 1512 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 90.9% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.4% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 41% |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 30.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 44.6% | — |
| MMLU | 82% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Pro: 24.5 (#121)
- GLM-5.3: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | GLM-5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 980 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Pro: 39.9 (#218)
- GLM-5.3: 55.9 (#27)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | GLM-5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1234 | 1457 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1244 | 1523 |
| LMArena French | 1270 | 1499 |
| LMArena German | 1243 | 1505 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1200 | 1438 |
| LMArena Korean | 1203 | 1478 |
| LMArena Russian | 1240 | 1460 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1182 | 1444 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Pro: 65.1 (#221)
- GLM-5.3: 77.8 (#15)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | GLM-5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1235 | 1481 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.1% | — |
| IFEval | 81.5% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#199)
- GLM-5.3: 45.5 (#32)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | GLM-5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1255 | 1485 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Pro: 44.1 (#221)
- GLM-5.3: 75.9 (#6)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | GLM-5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1259 | 1473 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1212 | 1459 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1245 | 1473 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 60.5% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 2075 |
| WildBench | 77.7% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 37% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Pro better than GLM-5.3?

GLM-5.3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.6 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Pro costs 1.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-5.3's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro or GLM-5.3?

Amazon Nova Pro is cheaper. It lists at $0.80 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens; GLM-5.3 lists at $1.40 and $4.40.

### Is Amazon Nova Pro or GLM-5.3 better for coding?

GLM-5.3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.0 versus 34.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-5.3 does, with 1M tokens against 300K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Pro and GLM-5.3 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and GLM-5.3 has 41.