Amazon Nova Pro vs Gemini 2.5 Pro
Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Amazon Nova Pro is meaningfully stronger at speed (80 vs 65 on our capability index).
- •Gemini 2.5 Pro is meaningfully stronger at coding (85 vs 68).
- •Amazon Nova Pro is 36% cheaper on input tokens, which compounds fast on high-volume or agentic workloads.
- •Amazon Nova Pro has a 300K tokens context window vs 1,048,576 tokens (1M) input; up to 65K output - better for whole-repo or long-document work.
Specs comparison
| Amazon Nova Pro | Gemini 2.5 Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon Web Services | Google DeepMind |
| Type | Closed source | Closed source |
| Context window | ✓300K tokens | 1,048,576 tokens (1M) input; up to 65K output |
| Input / 1M tokens | ✓$0.80 | $1.25 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $3.20 | $10.00 |
| Release date | 2024-12 | 2025-06 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | ~85% | - |
| Context window | - | 1M tokens |
| Pricing tier break | - | 200K tokens |
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 Gemini 2.5 Pro if...
- →Complex reasoning, analysis, or STEM tasks that benefit from a thinking model
- →Processing very long inputs (long documents, large repos)
- →Multimodal tasks needing high quality