Qwen2.5-Max vs Nova Premier
Qwen vs Amazon · Prices checked 12 August 2026
On price Qwen2.5-Max edges it, $3.04 per million tokens blended versus $5.50, about 45 per cent less. A single 100K-input, 10K-output job costs $0.224 on Qwen2.5-Max against $0.375 on Nova Premier.
The 5 benchmarks they both publish do not separate them; wins are shared. Nova Premier reads more in one request: 300,000 tokens of context against 32,000. Qwen2.5-Max was released Jan 2025; Nova Premier 2025.
Pricing and capacity
| Metric | Qwen2.5-Max | Nova Premier | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $1.60 | $2.50 | 36% |
| Output / 1M tokens | $6.40 | $12.50 | 49% |
| Blended · 70/30calculated | $3.04 | $5.50 | 45% |
| Blended · 50/50calculated | $4.00 | $7.50 | 47% |
| Blended · 80/20calculated | $2.56 | $4.50 | 43% |
| Blended · 20/80calculated | $5.44 | $10.50 | 48% |
| Job cost · 100K + 10Kcalculated | $0.224 | $0.375 | 40% |
| Job cost · 1M + 100Kcalculated | $2.24 | $3.75 | 40% |
| Context window | 32,000 | 300,000 | 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 | Qwen2.5-Max | Nova Premier | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 87% | 88% | Nova Premier |
| GPQA Diamond | 60% | 60% | Level |
| MATH | 85% | 84% | Qwen2.5-Max |
| HumanEval | 90% | 92% | Nova Premier |
| LMArena Elo | 1296 Elo | 1280 Elo | Qwen2.5-Max |
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
Qwen2.5-Max
Qwen · Flagship
Alibaba's closed-weights flagship. Frontier-quality MoE that competes with Claude / GPT on Chinese benchmarks at competitive pricing.
- Frontier on Chinese benchmarks
- MoE inference economics
- Strong tool use
- Multilingual
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, Qwen2.5-Max or Nova Premier?
On price Qwen2.5-Max edges it, $3.04 per million tokens blended versus $5.50, about 45 per cent less. A single 100K-input, 10K-output job costs $0.224 on Qwen2.5-Max 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, Qwen2.5-Max or Nova Premier?
The 5 benchmarks they both publish do not separate them; wins are shared. 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, Qwen2.5-Max or Nova Premier?
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 Qwen2.5-Max and Nova Premier 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.