Model comparison
Nova Premier 1.0 vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Nova Premier 1.0 and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.3 vs 38.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Nova Premier 1.0 scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads 71.6 to 66.8.
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is cheaper at $1.50 / $7.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $12.50 for Nova Premier 1.0.
- Nova Premier 1.0 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 38.3 | 38.1 |
| Released | 2025-04-30 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | 262K |
| Max output | 10K | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | $1.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $12.50 | $7.50 |
| Results tracked | 6 | 25 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Nova Premier 1.0: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 35.5 (#223)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 55.4% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1275 |
| GSO | — | 4.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 41.2% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1412 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 461.45 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.44 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Nova Premier 1.0: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.9 (#123)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 27.2% |
Reasoning Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Nova Premier 1.0: 23.0 (#185), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 25.5 (#149)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 44.8% | 49.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1372 |
Math Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Nova Premier 1.0: 33.8 (#199), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.6 (#150)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 35% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1365 |
Knowledge Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Nova Premier 1.0: 35.8 (#180), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.0 (#162)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 72.6% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 51.8% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1338 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Nova Premier 1.0: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.7 (#148)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1346 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1357 |
| LMArena French | — | 1398 |
| LMArena German | — | 1325 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1310 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1305 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1366 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1360 |
Instruction Following Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Nova Premier 1.0: 66.8 (#204), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.6 (#147)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 80.3% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1355 |
Long Context Not comparable
Nova Premier 1.0: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#131)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1378 |
Writing & Preference Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Nova Premier 1.0: 51.0 (#178), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.3 (#147)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1357 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1333 |
| WildBench | 78.8% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1365 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Nova Premier 1.0 better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?
Nova Premier 1.0 and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.3 vs 38.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Nova Premier 1.0 or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens; Nova Premier 1.0 lists at $2.50 and $12.50.
Which has the bigger context window?
Nova Premier 1.0 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks do Nova Premier 1.0 and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Nova Premier 1.0 has 6 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.