Nova Premier 1.0 vs GPT Audio compared — price per token, context window, multimodality, openness and which to choose. Full 2026 breakdown.
Nova Premier 1.0 — full profile › · GPT Audio — full profile ›
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 Audio | 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 | No | AMNova Premier 1.0 |
| Tool / function calling | Yes | Yes | = Tie |
| Self-hostable | No (API only) | No (API only) | – |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | – |
| Capability | Nova Premier 1.0 | GPT Audio |
|---|---|---|
| Open weights (downloadable) | ✗ | ✗ |
| Self-hostable | ✗ | ✗ |
| Runs fully offline | ✗ | ✗ |
| Vision / multimodal | ✓ | ✗ |
| Tool / function calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| 1M+ context window | ✓ | ✗ |
| Criterion | Nova Premier 1.0 | GPT Audio |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3.5 |
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.
The gpt-audio model is OpenAI's first generally available audio model. The new snapshot features an upgraded decoder for more natural sounding voices and maintains better voice consistency. Audio is priced...
GPT Audio is cheaper on output ($10/M vs $12.5/M).
Nova Premier 1.0 offers the larger context window (1M tokens).
Choose GPT Audio 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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