Nova Premier 1.0 vs GPT-4o compared — price per token, context window, multimodality, openness and which to choose. Full 2026 breakdown.
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Prices & specs refreshed from live data · olud.ai
Open-model prices = cheapest provider via OpenRouter; official maker rates may be higher.
| Spec | Nova Premier 1.0 | GPT-4o | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maker | Amazon | OpenAI | – |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary | – |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 128K tokens | AMNova Premier 1.0 |
| Input price | $2.5/M | $2.5/M | = Tie |
| Output price | $12.5/M | $10/M | |
| Vision / multimodal | Yes | Yes | = Tie |
| Tool / function calling | Yes | Yes | = Tie |
| Self-hostable | No (API only) | No (API only) | – |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | – |
| Capability | Nova Premier 1.0 | GPT-4o |
|---|---|---|
| Open weights (downloadable) | ✗ | ✗ |
| Self-hostable | ✗ | ✗ |
| Runs fully offline | ✗ | ✗ |
| Vision / multimodal | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tool / function calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| 1M+ context window | ✓ | ✗ |
Independent benchmark scores measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better (except latency).
Benchmark data by Artificial Analysis.
| Criterion | Nova Premier 1.0 | GPT-4o |
|---|---|---|
| Cost-efficiency | 3.5 | 3.5 |
| Context window | 5.0 | 3.5 |
| Openness | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| Self-hosting | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| Multimodality | 5.0 | 5.0 |
Scores come from live data — output price (cost), context length, open vs closed weights (openness & self-hosting) and vision/tool support (multimodality). Raw task quality isn't scored here; it depends on your benchmark — see the verdict.
Amazon Nova Premier is the most capable of Amazon’s multimodal models for complex reasoning tasks and for use as the best teacher for distilling custom models.
GPT-4o ("o" for "omni") is OpenAI's latest AI model, supporting both text and image inputs with text outputs. It maintains the intelligence level of [GPT-4 Turbo](/models/openai/gpt-4-turbo) while being twice as...
GPT-4o is cheaper on output ($10/M vs $12.5/M).
Nova Premier 1.0 offers the larger context window (1M tokens).
Choose GPT-4o for the lower output price ($10/M vs $12.5/M). Choose Nova Premier 1.0 if you need the larger 1M context window.
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