# Amazon Nova Pro vs Granite 3.0 8b Instruct

> Amazon Nova Pro and Granite 3.0 8b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.0 vs 31.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-pro-vs-granite-3-0-8b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 12

## Summary

- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 5 categories and Granite 3.0 8b Instruct in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Amazon Nova Pro leads 43.9 to 31.1.
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 31.0 | 31.6 |
| Rank | 281 | 270 |
| Context | 300K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.80 | — |
| Output $/M | $3.20 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Pro: 35.1 (#229)
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.7 (#301)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1270 | 1112 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 29.3% |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 35.4% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Pro: 16.7 (#147)
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 25% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 1.7% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Pro: 20.0 (#243)
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 20.9 (#230)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | 1092 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 32.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 123.8 | — |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Pro: 28.5 (#243)
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 32.8 (#210)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1252 | 1143 |
| Omni-MATH | 24.2% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 38% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Pro: 27.4 (#250)
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.6 (#236)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1211 | 1087 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.4% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 30.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 44.6% | — |
| MMLU | 82% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Pro: 25.0 (#126)
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 980 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Pro: 39.7 (#223)
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 27.2 (#276)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1234 | 1037 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1244 | 1063 |
| LMArena Russian | 1240 | 1060 |
| LMArena French | 1271 | — |
| LMArena German | 1243 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1200 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1203 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1182 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Pro: 64.9 (#226)
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 56.0 (#276)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1235 | 1088 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.1% | — |
| IFEval | 81.5% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#205)
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 34.0 (#252)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1255 | 1122 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Pro: 43.9 (#226)
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#285)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1259 | 1096 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1212 | 1071 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1246 | 1063 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 60.5% | — |
| WildBench | 77.7% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 37% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Pro better than Granite 3.0 8b Instruct?

Amazon Nova Pro and Granite 3.0 8b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.0 vs 31.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

### Is Amazon Nova Pro or Granite 3.0 8b Instruct better for coding?

Amazon Nova Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.1 versus 29.7 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Pro and Granite 3.0 8b Instruct share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has 14.