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Nova 2.0 Pro Preview

Reasoning effort

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview is an Amazon proprietary reasoning model, released 2 Dec 2025. Its best configuration (medium reasoning effort) ranks #369 of 785 on the BenchLeader Index at 50.5 ±7.9, in the upper half. The ± is the point: 438 other configurations score within that range, so they and this one cannot be told apart on quality alone — price and speed are what separate them. It scores highest in instruction following (77) and lowest in knowledge (39). At $3.44 per million tokens blended it is among the most expensive ranked models. Output speed of 125 tokens per second puts it faster than most, with a first answer in 27.4 s. It has been measured at 4 reasoning-effort settings; this summary describes the best-scoring one, and the tabs above switch between them. Last measured 2 Dec 2025.stale: no new result in six months

Blended price
$3.44/M
$1.25 in · $10.00 out
Output speed
125 tok/s
measured by Artificial Analysis
First answer
27 s
Context
256k
Full answer
31 s
median, reasoning included
Cost per run
–
Released
2 Dec 2025
How it scores by categoryDashed line = average model (50). One step of 15 = one standard deviation.
  1. Overall index51
  2. Reasoning41
  3. Coding44
  4. Agents & tools55
  5. Knowledge39
  6. Instruction following77
  7. Multimodal47
  8. Long context57
  9. Composite45

Reasoning-effort configurations

The same model behaves differently depending on how much it is allowed to think. Each row is one setting, scored only on the benchmarks that were run at that setting. “Not stated” collects results from publishers that did not say which setting they used; for a reasoning model that is usually its thinking mode, but we do not assume it. Pick a setting here or at the top of the page to see its price, speed and category scores.

EffortIndexRankSpeedFirst answerChat reply costCategories
no reasoning43.5#566111 tok/s0.98 s$0.0035Agents & tools 48 · Coding 24 · Composite 41 · Instruction following 53 · Knowledge 39 · Long context 39 · Reasoning 41
low49.3#402119 tok/s27 s$0.0035Agents & tools 49 · Coding 38 · Composite 44 · Instruction following 77 · Knowledge 41 · Long context 57 · Multimodal 45 · Reasoning 41
mediumbest50.5#369125 tok/s27 s$0.0035Agents & tools 55 · Coding 44 · Composite 45 · Instruction following 77 · Knowledge 39 · Long context 57 · Multimodal 47 · Reasoning 41
not stated–––––

How its index has moved

9 Sept 2026 to 21 Oct 2026
364860
  • medium
  • low
  • no reasoning

The index is recomputed from scratch every day, so a line moves when a new benchmark result lands, when a publisher revises a score, or when the models it is normalised against change. Early movement usually means the score is still settling.

Benchmark results

See all LLM benchmarks. One column per reasoning effort. Rank is among every configuration of every model on that benchmark. Hover a score for the run it came from.

Reasoning

Benchmarkno reasoninglowmediumSourceTrend
GPQA Diamond (AA)not in index63.6%#35275.0%#25278.5%#209Artificial Analysis
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)not in index3.9%#5565.2%#4429.4%#335Artificial Analysis
CritPt0.0%#3150.0%#3150.0%#315Artificial Analysis

Coding

Benchmarkno reasoninglowmediumSourceTrend
SciCode28.1%#20138.7%#17342.7%#149SciCode
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (AA)not in index17.2%#18019.5%#17629.6%#155Artificial Analysis

Agents & tools

Benchmarkno reasoninglowmediumSourceTrend
Terminal-Bench Hard16.7%#18417.4%#17824.2%#144Artificial Analysis
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA)not in index71.6%#15190.6%#6192.7%#51Artificial Analysis
GDPval-AA v2.1not in index0.0%#1240.0%#1240.0%#124Artificial Analysis

Knowledge

Benchmarkno reasoninglowmediumnot statedSourceTrend
AA-Omniscience-49.5#386-46.5#361-49.0#383–Artificial Analysis
GDP.pdfnot in index2.0%#55––2.0%#55Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
AA-Omniscience: accuracynot in index16.9%#37822.0%#27822.0%#279–Artificial Analysis
AA-Omniscience: non-hallucinationnot in index20.1%#27712.1%#3819.0%#442–Artificial Analysis
Global-MMLU-Lite (AA)not in index–87.6%#20––Artificial Analysis

Instruction following

Benchmarkno reasoninglowmediumSourceTrend
IFBench52.0%#16379.6%#1079.0%#12Artificial Analysis

Multimodal

BenchmarklowmediumSourceTrend
MMMU-Pro62.7%#19364.5%#184Artificial Analysis

Long context

Benchmarkno reasoninglowmediumSourceTrend
AA-LCR30.0%#39564.7%#25564.0%#260Artificial Analysis

Composite

Benchmarkno reasoninglowmediumSourceTrend
AA Intelligence Index v4.3.210.0#38312.8#32214.2#300Artificial Analysis

Price history

The price above, per 1M tokens, every day it changed.

$0.00$3.03$6.05$9.08$12.10Sept 26Oct 26
input outputnow $1.25 in · $10.00 out

What a task costs

Estimates from list price, output speed and time to first answer for the best configuration. “With caching” assumes three-quarters of the input is served from the prompt cache. Reasoning tokens are not modelled.

WorkloadTokens in / outCostWith cachingTime
Chat reply400 / 300$0.0035–29.8 s
Summarize a 30-page report12,000 / 600$0.021–32.2 s
Code edit6,000 / 1,500$0.022–39.4 s
Agentic coding session60,000 / 4,000$0.115–59.4 s
Structured extraction2,000 / 200$0.0045–29.0 s

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Questions people ask

What are Nova 2.0 Pro Preview's benchmark scores?
As of 25 Oct 2026, Nova 2.0 Pro Preview (medium effort) scores 50.5 ±7.9 on the BenchLeader Index, strongest in instruction following (77) and weakest in knowledge (39). That rests on 8 independent benchmark results, and every score on this page links to its publisher.
How does Nova 2.0 Pro Preview rank?
Nova 2.0 Pro Preview (medium effort) is #369 of 785 ranked configurations on 25 Oct 2026. 438 other configurations score within its margin, so the exact position matters less than the band. The leader is Claude Opus 5.5 (max effort) at 72.6.
How much does Nova 2.0 Pro Preview cost per 1M tokens?
As of 25 Oct 2026, Nova 2.0 Pro Preview costs $1.25 per 1M input tokens and $10.00 per 1M output tokens, $3.44 blended (three input tokens per output token). The list price last changed on 17 Oct 2026.
When was Nova 2.0 Pro Preview released?
Amazon released Nova 2.0 Pro Preview on 2 Dec 2025. BenchLeader has results for it at 4 reasoning-effort settings.

Data as of 25 Oct 2026. Compare these configurations.

Cite as: BenchLeader, “Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: benchmarks, pricing, speed and rank”, data as of 25 Oct 2026, https://www.benchleader.com/models/nova-2-0-pro.