# Amazon Nova Pro vs MiniMax-M2

> MiniMax-M2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.4 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-pro-vs-minimax-m2
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 15

## Summary

- They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 1 category and MiniMax-M2 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where MiniMax-M2 leads 37.0 to 27.4.
- MiniMax-M2 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.80 / $3.20 for Amazon Nova Pro.
- Amazon Nova Pro accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 205K.
- MiniMax-M2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Pro | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | MiniMax |
| Noometry Index | 31.0 | 37.4 |
| Rank | 281 | 204 |
| Context | 300K | 205K |
| Input $/M | $0.80 | $0.30 |
| Output $/M | $3.20 | $1.20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Pro: 35.1 (#229)
- MiniMax-M2: 39.3 (#159)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1270 | 1370 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 61% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1297 |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.1% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Pro: 16.7 (#147)
- MiniMax-M2: 25.1 (#109)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 30% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 25% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 1.7% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 160.6 |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Pro: 20.0 (#243)
- MiniMax-M2: 19.4 (#258)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | 1357 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 57.8% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 14.8% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 32.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 123.8 | — |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Pro: 28.5 (#243)
- MiniMax-M2: 37.3 (#160)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1252 | 1352 |
| Omni-MATH | 24.2% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 38% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Pro: 27.4 (#250)
- MiniMax-M2: 37.0 (#163)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1211 | 1337 |
| 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)
- MiniMax-M2: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 980 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Pro: 39.7 (#223)
- MiniMax-M2: 45.3 (#171)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1234 | 1313 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1244 | 1366 |
| LMArena French | 1271 | 1335 |
| LMArena German | 1243 | 1355 |
| LMArena Russian | 1240 | 1331 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1182 | 1326 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1200 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1203 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Pro: 64.9 (#226)
- MiniMax-M2: 70.2 (#166)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1235 | 1328 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.1% | — |
| IFEval | 81.5% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#205)
- MiniMax-M2: 40.5 (#153)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1255 | 1331 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Pro: 43.9 (#226)
- MiniMax-M2: 53.0 (#162)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | MiniMax-M2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1259 | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1212 | 1286 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1246 | 1361 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 60.5% | — |
| WildBench | 77.7% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 37% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Pro better than MiniMax-M2?

MiniMax-M2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.4 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro or MiniMax-M2?

MiniMax-M2 is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Amazon Nova Pro lists at $0.80 and $3.20.

### Is Amazon Nova Pro or MiniMax-M2 better for coding?

MiniMax-M2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.3 versus 35.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Pro does, with 300K tokens against 205K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Pro and MiniMax-M2 share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2 has 21.