GPT-5 mini vs Amazon Nova Pro
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
GPT-5 mini
OpenAI · Aug 2025
A fast, cheap distillation of GPT-5 for high-volume workloads — one fifth of the flagship's price with most of its everyday capability.
Amazon Nova Pro
Amazon · Dec 2024
AWS's house multimodal model — chosen for Bedrock-native integration and AWS billing more than for benchmark wins.
The verdict
These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. GPT-5 mini is about 2.0x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). GPT-5 mini also takes 400K of context versus 300K for Amazon Nova Pro.
Specs & pricing
| GPT-5 mini | Amazon Nova Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $0.25 | $0.8 |
| Output price / 1M | $2 | $3.2 |
| Context window | 400K | 300K |
| Max output | 128K | 10K |
| Open weights | no | no |
| Reasoning model | yes | no |
| Multimodal input | text, image | text, image, video |
| Knowledge cutoff | May 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| Released | Aug 2025 | Dec 2024 |
| Example monthly cost* | $5.50 | $12.80 |
* 10M input + 1.5M output tokens per month at list prices, no caching. Green = better value on that row.
Frequently asked questions
- Which is better, GPT-5 mini or Amazon Nova Pro?
- These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. GPT-5 mini is about 2.0x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). GPT-5 mini also takes 400K of context versus 300K for Amazon Nova Pro.
- Which is cheaper, GPT-5 mini or Amazon Nova Pro?
- GPT-5 mini costs $0.25/$2 per million input/output tokens, while Amazon Nova Pro costs $0.8/$3.2. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $5.50 versus $12.80.
- Which model is better for coding, GPT-5 mini or Amazon Nova Pro?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.