Amazon Nova Pro vs o1
Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Amazon Nova Pro is meaningfully stronger at speed (80 vs 30 on our capability index).
- •o1 is meaningfully stronger at math (88 vs 68).
- •Amazon Nova Pro is 95% cheaper on input tokens, which compounds fast on high-volume or agentic workloads.
- •Amazon Nova Pro has a 300K tokens context window vs 200,000 tokens (100,000 max output) - better for whole-repo or long-document work.
Specs comparison
| Amazon Nova Pro | o1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon Web Services | OpenAI |
| Type | Closed source | Closed source |
| Context window | ✓300K tokens | 200,000 tokens (100,000 max output) |
| Input / 1M tokens | ✓$0.80 | $15.00 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $3.20 | $60.00 |
| Release date | 2024-12 | 2024-12 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | ~85% | - |
| AIME 2024 | - | 74% |
| GPQA Diamond | - | 77.3% |
| Codeforces | - | ~89th percentile |
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 o1 if...
- →Hard, multi-step math, science, and logic problems that reward deliberate reasoning
- →Competitive programming and algorithmic problem solving
- →Existing o1-based pipelines already validated for reasoning tasks