Amazon Nova Pro vs GPT-5.6 Sol
Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Amazon Nova Pro is meaningfully stronger at cost efficiency (82 vs 55 on our capability index).
- •GPT-5.6 Sol is meaningfully stronger at coding (97 vs 68).
- •Amazon Nova Pro is 84% cheaper on input tokens, which compounds fast on high-volume or agentic workloads.
Specs comparison
| Amazon Nova Pro | GPT-5.6 Sol | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon Web Services | OpenAI |
| Type | Closed source | Closed source |
| Context window | ✓300K tokens | Not announced |
| Input / 1M tokens | ✓$0.80 | $5.00 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $3.20 | $30.00 |
| Release date | 2024-12 | 2026-06 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | GPT-5.6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | ~85% | - |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | - | 88.8% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Ultra) | - | 91.9% |
| ExploitBench | - | competitive with Mythos Preview |
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-5.6 Sol if...
- →You are an approved preview partner needing the most capable model for agentic software engineering
- →Complex multi-step tasks that benefit from subagent orchestration (Ultra) or maximum reasoning depth (max)
- →Frontier scientific research, professional knowledge work, or security-sensitive workloads