# Amazon Nova Pro vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct

> Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Pro costs 2.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-pro-vs-qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads 55.5 to 44.1.
- Amazon Nova Pro is cheaper at $0.80 / $3.20 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct.
- Amazon Nova Pro accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 262K.
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.5 | 37.7 |
| Rank | 278 | 186 |
| Context | 300K | 262K |
| Input $/M | $0.80 | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | $3.20 | $7.50 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Pro: 34.6 (#224)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.2 (#199)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1270 | 1413 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 55.4% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1275 |
| GSO | — | 4.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 41.2% |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.1% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 461.45 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.44 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Pro: 16.6 (#139)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.7 (#116)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 27.2% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 25% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 1.7% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Pro: 19.2 (#240)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 24.7 (#141)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | 1372 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 49.5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 32.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 123.75 | — |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Pro: 26.4 (#240)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 34.9 (#151)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1252 | 1364 |
| Omni-MATH | 24.2% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 38% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Pro: 27.1 (#246)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.4 (#159)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| 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: 24.5 (#121)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 980 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Pro: 39.9 (#218)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.8 (#143)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1234 | 1345 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1244 | 1356 |
| LMArena French | 1270 | 1394 |
| LMArena German | 1243 | 1324 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1200 | 1309 |
| LMArena Korean | 1203 | 1307 |
| LMArena Russian | 1240 | 1367 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1182 | 1360 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Pro: 65.1 (#221)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.8 (#142)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1235 | 1356 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.1% | — |
| IFEval | 81.5% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#199)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#126)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1255 | 1379 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Pro: 44.1 (#221)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.5 (#142)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1259 | 1356 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1212 | 1333 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1245 | 1365 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 60.5% | — |
| WildBench | 77.7% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 37% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Pro better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Pro costs 2.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Amazon Nova Pro is cheaper. It lists at $0.80 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens; Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

### Is Amazon Nova Pro or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.2 versus 34.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

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

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Pro and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.