# Amazon Nova Pro vs GPT-5 Mini

> GPT-5 Mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.7 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-pro-vs-gpt-5-mini
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 29

## Summary

- They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5 Mini in 10 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5 Mini leads 46.3 to 26.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Omni-MATH: 24.2% for Amazon Nova Pro and 72.2% for GPT-5 Mini.
- GPT-5 Mini is cheaper at $0.25 / $2 per million input/output tokens, against $0.80 / $3.20 for Amazon Nova Pro.
- GPT-5 Mini accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 300K.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Pro | GPT-5 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 30.5 | 41.7 |
| Rank | 278 | 115 |
| Context | 300K | 400K |
| Input $/M | $0.80 | $0.25 |
| Output $/M | $3.20 | $2 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Pro: 34.6 (#224)
- GPT-5 Mini: 40.0 (#134)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | GPT-5 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1270 | 1406 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 64.7% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 59.8% |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | 39.7% |
| SciCode | — | 39.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 52.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.1% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 799.77 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.38 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Pro: 16.6 (#139)
- GPT-5 Mini: 31.0 (#64)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | GPT-5 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 25% | 55.5% |
| Terminal-Bench | — | 34.8% |
| TheAgentCompany | 1.7% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | -31.18 |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Pro: 19.2 (#240)
- GPT-5 Mini: 24.1 (#153)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | GPT-5 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | 1380 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 123.75 | 145.51 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 4.4% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 70.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 54.3% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 30% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 8.2% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 32.6% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 10% |
| DTBench | — | 80.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.3% | — |
| LMCA | — | 34.2% |
| ForecastBench | — | 61 |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Pro: 26.4 (#240)
- GPT-5 Mini: 46.3 (#59)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | GPT-5 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 24.2% | 72.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1252 | 1377 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 46.7% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 12.2% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 86.7% |
| ProofBench | — | 9% |
| LiveBench Math | 38% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 97.8% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 27.2% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 6.3% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Pro: 27.1 (#246)
- GPT-5 Mini: 45.5 (#80)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | GPT-5 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.4% | 19.4% |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.3% | 83.5% |
| Confabulations | 30.1% | 13.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | 12.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 44.6% | 75.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1211 | 1377 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 75% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 21.6% |
| MMLU | 82% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Pro: 24.5 (#121)
- GPT-5 Mini: 35.0 (#80)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | GPT-5 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 980 | 1202 |
| VPCT | — | 40.2% |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Pro: 39.9 (#218)
- GPT-5 Mini: 49.1 (#131)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | GPT-5 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1234 | 1363 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1244 | 1387 |
| LMArena French | 1270 | 1385 |
| LMArena German | 1243 | 1366 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1200 | 1342 |
| LMArena Korean | 1203 | 1306 |
| LMArena Russian | 1240 | 1362 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1182 | 1355 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Pro: 65.1 (#221)
- GPT-5 Mini: 76.4 (#43)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | GPT-5 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 81.5% | 92.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1235 | 1357 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#199)
- GPT-5 Mini: 41.9 (#127)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | GPT-5 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1255 | 1355 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 69.4% |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Pro: 44.1 (#221)
- GPT-5 Mini: 55.4 (#143)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | GPT-5 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1259 | 1373 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1212 | 1325 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 60.5% | 83.1% |
| WildBench | 77.7% | 85.5% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1245 | 1363 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1313 |
| LiveBench Language | 37% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Pro better than GPT-5 Mini?

GPT-5 Mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.7 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro or GPT-5 Mini?

GPT-5 Mini is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens; Amazon Nova Pro lists at $0.80 and $3.20.

### Is Amazon Nova Pro or GPT-5 Mini better for coding?

GPT-5 Mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.0 versus 34.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5 Mini does, with 400K tokens against 300K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Pro and GPT-5 Mini share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5 Mini has 60.