Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs GPT-5 Pro
GPT-5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.2 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 673× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
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Summary
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-5 Pro leads 56.2 to 29.2.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $120 for GPT-5 Pro.
- GPT-5 Pro accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-5 Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 46.2 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2025-10-06 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | 400K |
| Max output | 10K | 272K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | $15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | $120 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 12 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-5 Pro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.0 (#289), GPT-5 Pro: 43.4 (#77)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | — | 60.4% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.31 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 21.9 (#125), GPT-5 Pro: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning GPT-5 Pro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 16.7 (#289), GPT-5 Pro: 39.2 (#52)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 18.3% |
| SimpleBench | — | 61.6% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 76.8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 70.2% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 18.8% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 150.26 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math GPT-5 Pro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 24.9 (#252), GPT-5 Pro: 48.0 (#53)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 55.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 19.5% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 14.6% |
Knowledge GPT-5 Pro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.2 (#231), GPT-5 Pro: 56.2 (#39)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 31.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.7 (#234), GPT-5 Pro: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | — |
| LMArena French | 1237 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.6 (#267), GPT-5 Pro: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#224), GPT-5 Pro: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1206 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.7 (#242), GPT-5 Pro: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | — |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than GPT-5 Pro?
GPT-5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.2 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 673× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or GPT-5 Pro?
Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; GPT-5 Pro lists at $15 and $120.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or GPT-5 Pro better for coding?
GPT-5 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.4 versus 30.0 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
GPT-5 Pro does, with 400K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and GPT-5 Pro share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5 Pro has 12.