AI Model Comparison
Side-by-side comparison of pricing, context window, benchmarks, capabilities, and license. Every figure comes from the developer's own pages, last checked on ; each model's page lists its sources. A figure we could not source shows as a dash.
Model A — OpenAI
GPT-5 is a reasoning model from OpenAI, released in the API on August 7, 2025 (snapshot gpt-5-2025-08-07). It takes text and image input, returns text, and has configurable reasoning effort.
Model B — Amazon
Amazon Nova 2 Lite is a fast, lower-cost reasoning model from Amazon, available in Amazon Bedrock since December 2, 2025. It takes text, image, video and document input, returns text, supports extended thinking at three intensity levels and a context of up to 1 million tokens.
| Property | GPT-5 | Amazon Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Released | Aug 7, 2025 | Dec 2, 2025 |
| Developer | OpenAI | Amazon |
| Type | reasoning | reasoning |
| License | proprietary | proprietary |
| Context window | 400,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Parameters | — | — |
| Developer status | Deprecated | — |
| Input $/M tokens | $1.25 | $0.30 |
| Output $/M tokens | $10.00 | $2.50 |
Bold green values indicate the winner on that dimension where comparison is meaningful (lower price wins; bigger context wins; more open license wins; newer date wins). Prices are the ones each developer lists today; a model it no longer prices has none.
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