Is Nova Pro 1.0 a good deal?

Whether anything in this catalogue beats Nova Pro 1.0 on both quality and price, and what you give up if it does. A computation on the current catalogue, not an opinion.

13 undominated of 136 · Sep 23, 2026

As of Sep 23, 2026, Nova Pro 1.0 has no independent quality score. We cannot rank it. Absence of a score is not a score of zero.

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Nova Pro 1.0

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3 tokens in per 1 out

Nova Pro 1.0 takes text, image, returns up to 5,120 tokens from a 300,000-token context, and is listed by 2 sellers.

LMArena EloEffective $/M · Balanced
136 rated, priced standard models. Chartreuse is the frontier. Cobalt is the model you named, when it is not on the staircase.

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