Amazon Nova Pro vs Command R+
Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Amazon Nova Pro leads on 1 of 1 shared benchmarks, including MMLU (~85% vs ~75%).
- •Amazon Nova Pro is meaningfully stronger at multimodal (85 vs 5 on our capability index).
- •Amazon Nova Pro is 68% cheaper on input tokens, which compounds fast on high-volume or agentic workloads.
- •Amazon Nova Pro has a 300K tokens context window vs 128K tokens - better for whole-repo or long-document work.
Specs comparison
| Amazon Nova Pro | Command R+ | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon Web Services | Cohere |
| Type | Closed source | Closed source |
| Context window | ✓300K tokens | 128K tokens |
| Input / 1M tokens | ✓$0.80 | $2.50 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $3.20 | $10.00 |
| Release date | 2024-12 | 2024-08 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Command R+ |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | ✓~85% | ~75% |
| RAG (BEIR) | - | Top-5 |
Scores sourced from official provider release posts and independent benchmark aggregators.
Which should you choose?
Choose Amazon Nova Pro if...
- →You are building on AWS and want native Bedrock integration
- →You need multimodal understanding of images or video plus text
- →You want a cost-balanced general model with a large context
- →You need enterprise controls: data residency, service tiers, prompt caching
Choose Command R+ if...
- →Your core use case is grounded RAG with citations
- →You need reliable multi-step tool/agent orchestration
- →You want an enterprise model available on Bedrock
- →You need multilingual responses across the 10 optimized languages