Nova 2.0 Pro Preview (medium)

By Amazon · released 2025-11-27 (7 months) · snapshot 2026-07-18

Off the frontierNot on frontier at launch dayproprietary
Intelligence index
21.80
Cost to run the AA index
$407
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)
$1.25 / $10.0
End-to-end time
32.7s
Better than…

Is Nova 2.0 Pro Preview (medium) on the Pareto frontier, and what beats it?

Off the frontier

No. GPT-5.6 Sol (low) is at least as smart for the same money or less.

Next step up: Muse Spark 1.1 (xhigh), smarter but dearer.

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview (medium) vs GPT-5.6 Sol (low)Nova 2.0 Pro Preview (medium) vs Muse Spark 1.1 (xhigh)
#ModelCreatorIntelligenceTotal costE2E totalOpenReleasedFrontier
1Nova 2.0 Pro Preview (medium)Amazon21.80$40732.7s2025-11-27
2GPT-5.6 Sol (low)OpenAI49.40$35313.2s2026-07-09Frontier
3Muse Spark 1.1 (xhigh)Meta50.60$54823.1s2026-07-09Frontier

Open in the picker Daily check URL: 200 on the frontier, 409 once beaten

At a glance

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview (medium) today

Time to first answer28.8s
Output speed129 tok/s
Input modalitiesNot reported
0204060$10$20$50$100$200$500$1k$2k$5k$10kCost to run the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (USD, log scale)Intelligence IndexClaude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning) (Anthropic): intelligence 29.60, $564Claude 4.5 Sonnet (Reasoning) (Anthropic): intelligence 36.40, $1133Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) (Anthropic): intelligence 53.50, $3738Claude Opus 4.8 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) (Anthropic): intelligence 55.70, $3753Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) (Anthropic): intelligence 47.20, $3356Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) (Anthropic): intelligence 53.40, $4010Claude Sonnet 5 (Non-reasoning, High Effort) (Anthropic): intelligence 41.70, $427DeepSeek R1 (Jan '25) (DeepSeek): intelligence 18.50, $416DeepSeek V3 0324 (DeepSeek): intelligence 15.40, $132Gemini 2.5 Pro (Google): intelligence 25.80, $610Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite (Google): intelligence 25.00, $93.7Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (Google): intelligence 46.50, $815Gemini 3.5 Flash (high) (Google): intelligence 50.20, $1041Gemma 4 26B A4B (Reasoning) (Google): intelligence 25.70, $51.9Gemma 4 31B (Non-reasoning) (Google): intelligence 21.80, $29.0GLM-4.6 (Reasoning) (Z AI): intelligence 28.70, $313GLM-4.7 (Reasoning) (Z AI): intelligence 33.70, $603GLM-5.1 (Reasoning) (Z AI): intelligence 40.20, $659GLM-5.2 (max) (Z AI): intelligence 51.10, $925GPT-4.1 mini (OpenAI): intelligence 14.80, $74.7GPT-4.1 nano (OpenAI): intelligence 9.60, $48.7GPT-5 (high) (OpenAI): intelligence 34.70, $813GPT-5.4 (xhigh) (OpenAI): intelligence 51.40, $2132GPT-5.4 mini (xhigh) (OpenAI): intelligence 40.00, $1095GPT-5.5 (high) (OpenAI): intelligence 53.10, $1719GPT-5.5 (low) (OpenAI): intelligence 43.50, $375GPT-5.5 (medium) (OpenAI): intelligence 50.40, $936GPT-5.5 (Non-reasoning) (OpenAI): intelligence 35.40, $211GPT-5.5 (xhigh) (OpenAI): intelligence 54.80, $2778GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026) (OpenAI): intelligence 28.90, $528GPT-5.6 Luna (low) (OpenAI): intelligence 33.30, $68.8GPT-5.6 Luna (max) (OpenAI): intelligence 51.20, $870GPT-5.6 Luna (medium) (OpenAI): intelligence 38.10, $106GPT-5.6 Luna (Non-reasoning) (OpenAI): intelligence 26.60, $51.4GPT-5.6 Luna (xhigh) (OpenAI): intelligence 49.10, $479GPT-5.6 Sol (Non-reasoning) (OpenAI): intelligence 41.20, $242GPT-5.6 Terra (high) (OpenAI): intelligence 49.00, $496GPT-5.6 Terra (low) (OpenAI): intelligence 40.50, $161GPT-5.6 Terra (max) (OpenAI): intelligence 55.00, $1754GPT-5.6 Terra (xhigh) (OpenAI): intelligence 51.60, $740gpt-oss-120b (high) (OpenAI): intelligence 23.80, $96.3gpt-oss-20b (high) (OpenAI): intelligence 14.90, $29.9Grok 4.3 (high) (SpaceXAI): intelligence 37.60, $288Grok 4.3 (Non-reasoning) (SpaceXAI): intelligence 24.80, $201Grok Build 0.1 0616 (SpaceXAI): intelligence 39.80, $375HyperNova 60B 2605 (Multiverse Computing): intelligence 17.80, $35.0Kimi K2.6 (Kimi): intelligence 44.20, $841Kimi K3 (Kimi): intelligence 57.10, $2710Llama 3.3 Instruct 70B (Meta): intelligence 9.40, $78.0Llama 4 Maverick (Meta): intelligence 14.30, $38.2Magistral Medium 1.2 (Mistral): intelligence 17.90, $886Ministral 3 14B (Mistral): intelligence 11.10, $120Ministral 3 3B (Mistral): intelligence 6.80, $91.8Ministral 3 8B (Mistral): intelligence 9.00, $113Mistral Large 3 (Mistral): intelligence 15.90, $71.0Mistral Medium 3.1 (Mistral): intelligence 14.70, $132Mistral Medium 3.5 (Mistral): intelligence 29.90, $1483Mistral Small 3.1 (Mistral): intelligence 14.70, $29.9Mistral Small 3.2 (Mistral): intelligence 10.60, $128Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) (NVIDIA): intelligence 37.80, $435Nova 2.0 Lite (high) (Amazon): intelligence 18.20, $635NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning) (NVIDIA): intelligence 14.20, $38.9NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning) (NVIDIA): intelligence 25.40, $254Qwen3 30B A3B 2507 (Reasoning) (Alibaba): intelligence 14.40, $152Qwen3 Coder Next (Alibaba): intelligence 21.10, $247Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Reasoning) (Alibaba): intelligence 16.70, $401Qwen3.5 122B A10B (Non-reasoning) (Alibaba): intelligence 27.60, $216Qwen3.5 122B A10B (Reasoning) (Alibaba): intelligence 32.30, $447Qwen3.5 35B A3B (Non-reasoning) (Alibaba): intelligence 24.00, $227Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning) (Alibaba): intelligence 33.70, $528Qwen3.5 9B (Reasoning) (Alibaba): intelligence 21.40, $179Qwen3.6 27B (Non-reasoning) (Alibaba): intelligence 30.50, $356Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning) (Alibaba): intelligence 37.10, $668Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Non-reasoning) (Alibaba): intelligence 24.20, $496Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) (Alibaba): intelligence 31.60, $334Qwen3.6 Plus (Alibaba): intelligence 39.60, $526Qwen3.7 Max (Alibaba): intelligence 46.00, $1559Qwen3.7 Plus (Alibaba): intelligence 39.00, $303Ring-2.6-1T (InclusionAI): intelligence 30.60, $460Llama 4 Scout (Meta): intelligence 10.00, $11.5DeepSeek V3 (Dec '24) (DeepSeek): intelligence 14.20, $19.8gpt-oss-120b (low) (OpenAI): intelligence 14.90, $24.2MiMo-V2.5 (Xiaomi): intelligence 37.20, $25.2DeepSeek V4 Flash (Reasoning, Max Effort) (DeepSeek): intelligence 40.30, $74.3MiMo-V2.5-Pro (Xiaomi): intelligence 42.20, $98.5DeepSeek V4 Pro (Reasoning, Max Effort) (DeepSeek): intelligence 44.30, $176MiniMax-M3 (MiniMax): intelligence 44.40, $204GPT-5.6 Terra (medium) (OpenAI): intelligence 45.60, $240GPT-5.6 Luna (high) (OpenAI): intelligence 46.10, $275GPT-5.6 Sol (low) (OpenAI): intelligence 49.40, $353Muse Spark 1.1 (xhigh) (Meta): intelligence 50.60, $548GPT-5.6 Sol (medium) (OpenAI): intelligence 53.60, $593Grok 4.5 (high) (SpaceXAI): intelligence 53.80, $602GPT-5.6 Sol (high) (OpenAI): intelligence 55.90, $956GPT-5.6 Sol (xhigh) (OpenAI): intelligence 57.70, $1543GPT-5.6 Sol (max) (OpenAI): intelligence 58.90, $2824Claude Fable 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Opus 4.8 Fallback) (Anthropic): intelligence 59.90, $5631Nova 2.0 Pro Preview (Non-reasoning) (Amazon): intelligence 14.40, $206Nova 2.0 Pro Preview (low) (Amazon): intelligence 19.60, $244Nova 2.0 Pro Preview (medium) (Amazon): intelligence 21.80, $407Nova 2.0 Pro Preview (medium)(Non-reasoning)(low)Llama 4 ScoutGPT-5.6 Sol (low)Muse Spark 1.1 (xhigh)Claude Fable 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Opus 4.8 Fallback)
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Up and left is better. Dotted line: today's Pareto frontier. Hover a point for its numbers, click it for its page.

Intelligence: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Cost: total cost to run that benchmark, so reasoning tokens count. API id: nova-2-0-pro-reasoning-medium.

Matchup

Compare head to head

Suggested: what beats it, its effort levels, and frontier models near its price.

Compare Nova 2.0 Pro Preview (medium) with measured models

Release

What the Nova 2.0 Pro Preview release did to the frontier on 2025-11-27

None of its 3 effort levels reached the frontier at launch.

Closest miss: Nova 2.0 Pro Preview (Non-reasoning), 0.5 points below gpt-oss-120b (low) at 8.5× the cost.

Release page: launch-day frontier and every effort level

Deciding

Should you use Nova 2.0 Pro Preview (medium)?

Should you use Nova 2.0 Pro Preview (medium)?

Only when it fits your setup: GPT-5.6 Sol (low) is at least as smart for the same money or less, so Nova 2.0 Pro Preview (medium) is off the value frontier today.

What is better and cheaper than Nova 2.0 Pro Preview (medium)?

GPT-5.6 Sol (low) — at least as smart for the same money or less.

How much does Nova 2.0 Pro Preview (medium) cost?

$1.25/$10 in/out per 1M tokens, and $407 to run the full Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the honest all-in number for reasoning models.

Is Nova 2.0 Pro Preview (medium) on the Pareto frontier?

No: GPT-5.6 Sol (low) beats it on intelligence, cost, or both.

Frontier membership by axis pair

Other axis pairs where Nova 2.0 Pro Preview (medium) is Pareto-optimal.

Y axisX axisOn the frontier
AA intelligence indexAA total cost to run (USD)
AA intelligence indexEnd-to-end total seconds
AA intelligence indexOutput speed tokens/sec
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