Amazon Nova Pro vs Gemini 2.5 Pro
2026 - Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Amazon Nova Pro is 36% cheaper on input tokens - better for high-volume workloads.
- •Gemini 2.5 Pro has a 1M context window - 3x larger than Amazon Nova Pro's 300K. Better for long documents and large codebases.
Specs comparison
| Amazon Nova Pro | Gemini 2.5 Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon Web Services | Google DeepMind |
| Type | Closed source | Closed source |
| Context window | 300K | ✓1M |
| Input / 1M tokens | ✓$0.80 | $1.25 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $3.20 | $10.00 |
| Release date | 2024-12 | 2025-03 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | ~85% | 90.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | - | 86.4% |
| SWE-bench Verified | - | 63.2% |
Scores sourced from official provider release posts.
Strengths
Amazon Nova Pro
- ✓Native AWS Bedrock integration
- ✓Multimodal: text, image, video inputs
- ✓300K context at competitive pricing
- ✓Strong RAG performance via Bedrock Knowledge Bases
- ✓Guardrails support for enterprise governance
Gemini 2.5 Pro
- ✓Largest commercial context window (1M tokens)
- ✓Top benchmark scores on science and math
- ✓Strong multimodal: video, audio, images
- ✓Competitive pricing for the capability tier
- ✓Native Google Search and code execution tools
Which should you choose?
Choose Amazon Nova Pro if you need...
- →AWS-native production workloads
- →Enterprise deployments requiring governance
- →Video and multimodal analysis
- →RAG pipelines on Bedrock
Choose Gemini 2.5 Pro if you need...
- →Very long document analysis
- →Video and multimodal understanding
- →Scientific research tasks
- →Large codebase comprehension