Nova Premier vs Yi-Large
Amazon vs 01.AI · Prices checked 12 August 2026
On price Yi-Large edges it, $3.00 per million tokens blended versus $5.50, about 45 per cent less. A single 100K-input, 10K-output job costs $0.330 on Yi-Large against $0.375 on Nova Premier.
Capability favours Nova Premier, ahead on 4 of 4 suites they both publish. The widest gap is on LMArena Elo, where Nova Premier leads by 81 points. Nova Premier reads more in one request: 300,000 tokens of context against 32,000. Nova Premier was released 2025; Yi-Large May 2024.
Pricing and capacity
| Metric | Nova Premier | Yi-Large | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $2.50 | $3.00 | 17% |
| Output / 1M tokens | $12.50 | $3.00 | 4.2× |
| Blended · 70/30calculated | $5.50 | $3.00 | 45% |
| Blended · 50/50calculated | $7.50 | $3.00 | 2.5× |
| Blended · 80/20calculated | $4.50 | $3.00 | 33% |
| Blended · 20/80calculated | $10.50 | $3.00 | 3.5× |
| Job cost · 100K + 10Kcalculated | $0.375 | $0.330 | 12% |
| Job cost · 1M + 100Kcalculated | $3.75 | $3.30 | 12% |
| Context window | 300,000 | 32,000 | 9.4× |
Input and output rates are as published by each provider. Blended and job-cost rows are calculated comparison metrics, not published prices — how they are derived.
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Nova Premier | Yi-Large | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 88% | 78% | Nova Premier |
| MATH | 84% | 60% | Nova Premier |
| HumanEval | 92% | 70% | Nova Premier |
| LMArena Elo | 1280 Elo | 1199 Elo | Nova Premier |
Only suites both models report are listed, so a missing score is never shown as a loss. Figures are provider-published or from public leaderboards and are not independently re-run.
What each model is for
Nova Premier
Amazon · Top-tier
AWS's frontier-tier Nova. Premier multimodal model targeting complex agentic workloads inside Bedrock.
- Frontier-tier Nova
- Strong reasoning + vision
- Tight Bedrock + IAM integration
- Long context
Frequently asked questions
Which is cheaper, Nova Premier or Yi-Large?
On price Yi-Large edges it, $3.00 per million tokens blended versus $5.50, about 45 per cent less. A single 100K-input, 10K-output job costs $0.330 on Yi-Large against $0.375 on Nova Premier. Blended cost weights input at 70% and output at 30%; price your own token split for an exact answer, since the cheaper model on a blended basis is not always cheaper for your workload.
Which performs better, Nova Premier or Yi-Large?
Capability favours Nova Premier, ahead on 4 of 4 suites they both publish. The widest gap is on LMArena Elo, where Nova Premier leads by 81 points. These are the figures each provider or public leaderboard publishes, not results we re-run, and a benchmark average can hide the specific behaviour your workload depends on.
Which has the larger context window, Nova Premier or Yi-Large?
Nova Premier reads more in one request: 300,000 tokens of context against 32,000. The context window caps everything in a single request: prompt, retrieved documents, conversation history and the model’s own output all share it.
Can I compare Nova Premier and Yi-Large on my own numbers?
Yes. Open both in the side-by-side comparison tool to see every field at once, or use the token calculator to price your actual prompt and monthly request volume against each model. Both are free and need no sign-up.
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Prices and scores are recomputed on every deploy from the catalogue. Prices checked 12 August 2026.