Amazon Nova Pro vs GPT-4o
Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •GPT-4o leads on 1 of 1 shared benchmarks, including MMLU (88.7% vs ~85%).
- •Amazon Nova Pro is meaningfully stronger at long context (80 vs 55 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 128,000 tokens (16,384 max output) - better for whole-repo or long-document work.
Specs comparison
| Amazon Nova Pro | GPT-4o | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon Web Services | OpenAI |
| Type | Closed source | Closed source |
| Context window | ✓300K tokens | 128,000 tokens (16,384 max output) |
| Input / 1M tokens | ✓$0.80 | $2.50 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $3.20 | $10.00 |
| Release date | 2024-12 | 2024-05 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | GPT-4o |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | ~85% | ✓88.7% |
| HumanEval | - | 90.2% |
| MATH | - | 76.6% |
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 GPT-4o if...
- →Everyday assistant, drafting, summarization, and classification tasks
- →Latency- and cost-sensitive applications at scale
- →Multimodal tasks needing image understanding with fast responses