Amazon Nova Pro vs Qwen3-Max
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
Amazon Nova Pro
Amazon · Dec 2024
AWS's house multimodal model — chosen for Bedrock-native integration and AWS billing more than for benchmark wins.
Qwen3-Max
80.5Alibaba (Qwen) · Sep 2025
Alibaba's trillion-parameter API flagship — frontier-adjacent quality with strong agentic tool use at mid-tier prices.
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. Amazon Nova Pro is about 1.7x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). Amazon Nova Pro also takes 300K of context versus 262K for Qwen3-Max.
Specs & pricing
| Amazon Nova Pro | Qwen3-Max | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | 80.5 |
| Input price / 1M | $0.8 | $1.2 |
| Output price / 1M | $3.2 | $6 |
| Context window | 300K | 262K |
| Max output | 10K | 66K |
| Open weights | no | no |
| Reasoning model | no | yes |
| Multimodal input | text, image, video | text |
| Knowledge cutoff | Oct 2024 | Jun 2025 |
| Released | Dec 2024 | Sep 2025 |
| Example monthly cost* | $12.80 | $21.00 |
* 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-Max?
- These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. Amazon Nova Pro is about 1.7x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). Amazon Nova Pro also takes 300K of context versus 262K for Qwen3-Max.
- Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro or Qwen3-Max?
- Amazon Nova Pro costs $0.8/$3.2 per million input/output tokens, while Qwen3-Max costs $1.2/$6. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $12.80 versus $21.00.
- Which model is better for coding, Amazon Nova Pro or Qwen3-Max?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.