Amazon Nova Pro vs o1
2026 - Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Amazon Nova Pro is 95% cheaper on input tokens - better for high-volume workloads.
Specs comparison
| Amazon Nova Pro | o1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon Web Services | OpenAI |
| Type | Closed source | Closed source |
| Context window | ✓300K | 200K |
| Input / 1M tokens | ✓$0.80 | $15.00 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $3.20 | $60.00 |
| Release date | 2024-12 | 2024-09 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | ~85% | - |
| GPQA Diamond | - | 78.3% |
| HumanEval | - | 92.4% |
| SWE-bench Verified | - | 48.9% |
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
o1
- ✓Best-in-class math and physics
- ✓Strong competitive coding (Codeforces, HumanEval)
- ✓Scientific reasoning (GPQA top performer)
- ✓Multi-step logic and planning
- ✓200K context for long technical documents
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 o1 if you need...
- →Math and science problems
- →Competitive programming
- →Complex multi-step reasoning
- →Research assistance