# Amazon Nova Pro vs Qwen3.5-9B

> Qwen3.5-9B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.8 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-pro-vs-qwen3-5-9b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.5-9B in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5-9B leads 46.0 to 27.4.
- Qwen3.5-9B is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $0.80 / $3.20 for Amazon Nova Pro.
- Amazon Nova Pro accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 262K.
- Qwen3.5-9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.0 | 33.8 |
| Rank | 281 | 236 |
| Context | 300K | 262K |
| Input $/M | $0.80 | $0.10 |
| Output $/M | $3.20 | $0.15 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Pro: 35.1 (#229)
- Qwen3.5-9B: 35.9 (#217)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 27.5% |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1270 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Pro: 16.7 (#147)
- Qwen3.5-9B: 14.5 (#151)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 9.2% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 25% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 1.7% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Pro: 20.0 (#243)
- Qwen3.5-9B: 23.1 (#182)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 123.8 | 139.46 |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 12% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 32.6% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | — |
| DTBench | — | 71.2% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.3% | — |
| LMCA | — | 24.5% |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Pro: 28.5 (#243)
- Qwen3.5-9B: 34.8 (#192)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 48.5% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 61.7% |
| Omni-MATH | 24.2% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 38% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1252 | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Pro: 27.4 (#250)
- Qwen3.5-9B: 46.0 (#84)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 79% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.4% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 30.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 44.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1211 | — |
| MMLU | 82% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Pro: 25.0 (#126)
- Qwen3.5-9B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 980 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Pro: 39.7 (#223)
- Qwen3.5-9B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1234 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1244 | — |
| LMArena French | 1271 | — |
| LMArena German | 1243 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1200 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1203 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1240 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1182 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Pro: 64.9 (#226)
- Qwen3.5-9B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.1% | — |
| IFEval | 81.5% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1235 | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#205)
- Qwen3.5-9B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1255 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Pro: 43.9 (#226)
- Qwen3.5-9B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1259 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1212 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 60.5% | — |
| WildBench | 77.7% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1246 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 37% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Pro better than Qwen3.5-9B?

Qwen3.5-9B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.8 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro or Qwen3.5-9B?

Qwen3.5-9B is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Amazon Nova Pro lists at $0.80 and $3.20.

### Is Amazon Nova Pro or Qwen3.5-9B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (35.1 vs 35.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Pro does, with 300K tokens against 262K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Pro and Qwen3.5-9B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-9B has 10.