Amazon Nova Pro vs GPT-5
Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Amazon Nova Pro is meaningfully stronger at speed (80 vs 68 on our capability index).
- •GPT-5 is meaningfully stronger at math (92 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 400,000 tokens (128,000 max output) - better for whole-repo or long-document work.
Specs comparison
| Amazon Nova Pro | GPT-5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon Web Services | OpenAI |
| Type | Closed source | Closed source |
| Context window | ✓300K tokens | 400,000 tokens (128,000 max output) |
| Input / 1M tokens | ✓$0.80 | $1.25 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $3.20 | $10.00 |
| Release date | 2024-12 | 2025-08 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | GPT-5 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | ~85% | - |
| SWE-bench Verified | - | 74.9% |
| AIME 2025 | - | 94.6% |
| GPQA (GPT-5 pro) | - | 88.4% |
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 if...
- →You want strong reasoning at the lowest frontier-model price
- →Existing GPT-5-based systems that are already tuned and validated
- →General coding, math, and reasoning workloads on a budget