Amazon Nova Pro vs Qwen3-235B-A22B
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
Amazon · Dec 2024
AWS's house multimodal model — chosen for Bedrock-native integration and AWS billing more than for benchmark wins.
Alibaba (Qwen) · Jul 2025
The most popular open general-purpose Qwen: 235B MoE with hybrid thinking, a staple of the 2025 open-source ecosystem.
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. On price the gap is dramatic: Qwen3-235B-A22B works out roughly 3.6x cheaper per blended million tokens. Amazon Nova Pro also takes 300K of context versus 262K for Qwen3-235B-A22B. And Qwen3-235B-A22B is open-weights (Apache 2.0), so it can be self-hosted — a structural advantage if data control or vendor independence matters.
Specs & pricing
| Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3-235B-A22B | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | 69.0 |
| Input price / 1M | $0.8 | $0.22 |
| Output price / 1M | $3.2 | $0.88 |
| Context window | 300K | 262K |
| Max output | 10K | 33K |
| Open weights | no | yes (Apache 2.0) |
| Reasoning model | no | yes |
| Multimodal input | text, image, video | text |
| Knowledge cutoff | Oct 2024 | Apr 2025 |
| Released | Dec 2024 | Jul 2025 |
| Example monthly cost* | $12.80 | $3.52 |
* 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, Amazon Nova Pro or Qwen3-235B-A22B?
- These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. On price the gap is dramatic: Qwen3-235B-A22B works out roughly 3.6x cheaper per blended million tokens. Amazon Nova Pro also takes 300K of context versus 262K for Qwen3-235B-A22B. And Qwen3-235B-A22B is open-weights (Apache 2.0), so it can be self-hosted — a structural advantage if data control or vendor independence matters.
- Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro or Qwen3-235B-A22B?
- Amazon Nova Pro costs $0.8/$3.2 per million input/output tokens, while Qwen3-235B-A22B costs $0.22/$0.88. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $12.80 versus $3.52.
- Which model is better for coding, Amazon Nova Pro or Qwen3-235B-A22B?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.