# Amazon Nova Pro vs o4-mini

> o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-pro-vs-o4-mini
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 29

## Summary

- They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 0 categories and o4-mini in 10 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where o4-mini leads 43.6 to 27.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Omni-MATH: 24.2% for Amazon Nova Pro and 72% for o4-mini.
- Amazon Nova Pro is cheaper at $0.80 / $3.20 per million input/output tokens, against $1.10 / $4.40 for o4-mini.
- Amazon Nova Pro accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 200K.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Pro | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 31.0 | 41.6 |
| Rank | 281 | 132 |
| Context | 300K | 200K |
| Input $/M | $0.80 | $1.10 |
| Output $/M | $3.20 | $4.40 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Pro: 35.1 (#229)
- o4-mini: 40.9 (#127)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1270 | 1368 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 45% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 72% |
| GSO | — | 3.6% |
| WeirdML | — | 52.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.1% | — |
| CadEval | — | 62% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 826.17 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.72 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Pro: 16.7 (#147)
- o4-mini: 32.6 (#61)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 25% | 53.2% |
| GDPval | — | 25.3% |
| TheAgentCompany | 1.7% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 63.9% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Pro: 20.0 (#243)
- o4-mini: 24.6 (#162)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | 1351 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 123.8 | 145.64 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 6.1% |
| SimpleBench | — | 38.7% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 67.6% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 58.7% |
| CritPt | — | 0.6% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 26% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 9.2% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 32.6% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 5% |
| DTBench | — | 77.6% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.3% | — |
| LMCA | — | 26.5% |
| ForecastBench | — | 61.8 |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Pro: 28.5 (#243)
- o4-mini: 40.8 (#89)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 24.2% | 72% |
| LMArena Math | 1252 | 1389 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 36.1% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 4.9% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 81.7% |
| LiveBench Math | 38% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 97.8% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 24.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 6.3% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Pro: 27.4 (#250)
- o4-mini: 43.6 (#91)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.4% | 18.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.3% | 82% |
| Confabulations | 30.1% | 15.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | 18.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 44.6% | 73.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1211 | 1343 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 79.6% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 19.6% |
| MMLU | 82% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Pro: 25.0 (#126)
- o4-mini: 40.2 (#49)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 980 | 1194 |
| GeoBench | — | 64% |
| VPCT | — | 57.5% |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Pro: 39.7 (#223)
- o4-mini: 47.0 (#154)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1234 | 1337 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1244 | 1354 |
| LMArena French | 1271 | 1364 |
| LMArena German | 1243 | 1336 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1200 | 1308 |
| LMArena Korean | 1203 | 1312 |
| LMArena Russian | 1240 | 1334 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1182 | 1347 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Pro: 64.9 (#226)
- o4-mini: 75.2 (#68)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 81.5% | 92.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1235 | 1321 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#205)
- o4-mini: 45.5 (#33)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1255 | 1315 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 77.8% |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Pro: 43.9 (#226)
- o4-mini: 54.0 (#152)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1259 | 1353 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1212 | 1294 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 60.5% | 75% |
| WildBench | 77.7% | 85.4% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1246 | 1350 |
| LiveBench Language | 37% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Pro better than o4-mini?

o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro or o4-mini?

Amazon Nova Pro is cheaper. It lists at $0.80 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens; o4-mini lists at $1.10 and $4.40.

### Is Amazon Nova Pro or o4-mini better for coding?

o4-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.9 versus 35.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Pro does, with 300K tokens against 200K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Pro and o4-mini share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and o4-mini has 60.