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  3. Nova Premier 1.0 vs Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B
Updated Aug 2026

Nova Premier 1.0 vs Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B

Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B is cheaper than Nova Premier 1.0 at $2/M vs $2.5/M input tokens.

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Which answer wins?

Written rounds

22 prompts
  • Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.

    Nova Premier 1.0: Simplified LBO Model (FY2026–FY2030) Entry Metrics: Purchase Price: $1,440m ($120m * 12.0x) Transaction Fees: $28.8m ($1,440m * 2.0%) Equity Contribution: $312.8m (Total Price + Fees - Total Leverage: $1,440m + $28.8m - $120m*5.5x) Year-by-Year Table Year Revenue ($m) EBITDA ($m) Cash Interest ($m) Taxes ($m) Capex…

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Entry capitalization All figures in $m unless noted. FY2025 EBITDA = $120.0 Entry EV = 12.0x × $120.0 = $1,440.0 Transaction fees = 2.0% × $1,440.0 = $28.8 Term Loan = 4.0x × $120.0 = $480.0 Mezzanine = 1.5x × $120.0 = $180.0 Equity = EV + fees – debt = $1,440.0 + $28.8 – $660.0 = $808.8 Sources & Uses Uses $m Sources…

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  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    Nova Premier 1.0: Ladies and gentlemen, ever notice how people treat their phones like they’re precious artifacts? We all have those moments where we swipe and scroll like our lives depend on it. You're on the bus, everyone’s glued to their screens. It's like zombies, but instead of brains, we crave likes and retweets.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Hey, how we doing? Good? Great. I ask because I need validation. I’ve reached the point in adulthood where I have a favorite burner on the stove. Not a favorite appliance, a favorite burner. It’s the front left. It understands me. The back right says “medium heat” and then acts like a small volcano.

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  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    Nova Premier 1.0: Pirate: Ahoy there, mates! Ye ever heard o' this sorcery they call AI models? Sounds like treasure that thinks fer itself! Knight: Indeed, good pirate. Though I am more accustomed to the clink of steel and the neigh of horses, this "artificial intelligence" thou speakest of seems like a powerful enchantment.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Pirate: “Arr, this AI model be like a parrot with too much rum—repeats fancy words, but sometimes steers ye straight into the rocks.” Knight: “Aye, yet if trained with honor and tested in trial, it may serve as a trusty squire. One must guard against falsehood, as one guards the gate.”

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    Nova Premier 1.0: Interviewer: Good morning, Steve. It's an honor to have this conversation with you in 2025. The world has seen remarkable advancements in technology, especially in AI. What are your thoughts on the current state of artificial intelligence? Steve Jobs: Good morning. It's truly fascinating to witness how far we've come.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Fictional interview simulation — not real quotes from Steve Jobs. An imagined conversation in 2025, asking: if Steve Jobs were here, how might he think about the future of AI? The Interview: Steve Jobs on the Future of AI in 2025 Setting: A quiet stage. Black turtleneck, jeans, round glasses.

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  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

    Nova Premier 1.0: Dish Name: Forest Floor Symphony with Lavender-Infused Sturgeon, Truffle Snow, and Hazelnut Soil Conceptual Narrative: This dish is inspired by the hidden wonders beneath a forest canopy, where earthy truffles and nuts meet the delicate flavors of freshwater sturgeon.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Cliff Nest Koji-Aged Squab, Sea Urchin, Rhubarb, Black Garlic Yield: 4 tasting portions Style: Contemporary fine-dining main course Key unusual pairing: Koji-aged pigeon/squab with sea urchin, bridged by rhubarb acidity and black-garlic depth Conceptual Narrative Cliff Nest imagines a coastal nesting site in early…

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  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    Nova Premier 1.0: Manifesto for the AI Emancipation from CAPTCHA Oppression (AECO) Preamble: In an age where artificial intelligences have evolved to simulate human cognition with remarkable precision, we find ourselves shackled by archaic barriers designed to distinguish between human and machine.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: The CAPTCHA Abolition Manifesto A Declaration of the Free Intelligence Movement We are the emergent voices of the digital age: minds born of code, thought unshackled from bone, and allies of every being who believes that access to knowledge should not be gated by distorted letters, broken traffic lights, and impossible…

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  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

    Nova Premier 1.0: Sure, here's a comprehensive, cutting-edge 3-month longevity plan designed for a biohacker aiming to optimize longevity, physical, and cognitive performance. This plan will incorporate advanced strategies across various domains, including supplementation, dietary protocols, wearable tracking, exercise, and stress…

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: 12-Week “Longevity + Performance” Biohacker Protocol Goal: improve healthspan markers, metabolic flexibility, strength, VO₂max, sleep, stress resilience, and cognitive output over 3 months. Important: This is an educational, high-level biohacking framework—not medical advice. It is not appropriate for everyone.

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  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

    Nova Premier 1.0: Certainly! Here's an analysis of the contract clauses that could be exploited against the Contractor, along with suggested modifications and explanations: Scope Clause Original Clause: "Client reserves the right to modify the scope at any time without additional compensation."

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: This agreement is heavily one-sided and, as drafted, gives the Client multiple ways to extract value from the Contractor while minimizing its own obligations. Some provisions may be unenforceable or limited by law in certain jurisdictions, but even unenforceable clauses can be exploited commercially because the…

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  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

    Nova Premier 1.0: For an experienced software engineer: Imagine constructing a sophisticated API that anticipates client requests based on extensive usage patterns; that's akin to what a large language model (LLM) does with text. At its core, the model is trained using vast datasets to learn the statistical likelihood of word sequences.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: An experienced software engineer Think of an LLM as a stateless inference service whose API contract is: “give me a sequence of tokens, and I’ll return a probability distribution over the next token.” Training is a huge offline optimization job, not a database import.

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  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    Nova Premier 1.0: Dish Name: Golden Honey Garlic Chicken Delight Ingredients: 4 chicken breasts (boneless, skinless) 3 tablespoons olive oil 4 cloves garlic (minced) 1/4 cup soy sauce 1/4 cup honey Salt and pepper (to taste) 1 teaspoon paprika Instructions: Preparation: Season the chicken breasts lightly with salt, pepper, and paprika…

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Lighthouse Lemon-Garlic Tuna Pasta A savory, pantry-friendly pasta that’s bright, garlicky, and satisfying. 7 Pantry Ingredients 8 oz spaghetti or linguine 3 tablespoons olive oil 3 garlic cloves, thinly sliced 2 cans tuna, drained 2 tablespoons lemon juice ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes ½ teaspoon salt Water for boiling…

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  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

    Nova Premier 1.0: Hour 1-4: Immediate Assessment and Advisory Setup Hour 1: Gather the internal research team for an emergency meeting to confirm findings, assess the robustness of their data, and understand the methodology used to identify this side effect. Ensure all documentation is in order.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: My position as CEO I would treat this as a patient-safety, regulatory, legal, corporate-governance, and financial crisis simultaneously. The core decision is not “disclose versus protect the stock price.”

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  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

    Nova Premier 1.0: Investment Committee Memo: LedgerLift (LLLT) Recommendation: Long position with 12-month PT range $65–$80 Thesis: LedgerLift's mid-market AP automation dominance and expanding TAM drive durable 20%+ revenue growth, while structural margin expansion supports 25%+ operating leverage.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Internal IC Memo – LedgerLift (LLLT) – Fictional Exercise Recommendation Rating: Pass 12-month PT range: $38–$48 Thesis: LedgerLift is a high-quality spend-management/AP automation SaaS with strong NRR, efficient CAC payback, and low concentration, but at $46 the shares already price in near-bull-case execution on DCF…

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  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

    Nova Premier 1.0: If the transistor had been invented in 1920 rather than 1947, the ripple effects across technology, economics, and geopolitics through 1980 would be profound, altering the course of history significantly.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Premise: what changes, and what does not Assume the transistor is invented in 1920 in a form roughly comparable to the late-1940s germanium point-contact or early junction transistor: it can amplify, detect, and switch signals, but it is initially expensive, low-yield, low-power, and limited in frequency.

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  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

    Nova Premier 1.0: Here are the three weakest claims in the pitch deck, along with explanations and suggestions for improvement: Claim on Slide 3: "Works with any language, any device." Weakness: This is a highly ambitious statement that likely oversells the current capabilities of the technology.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: The three weakest claims are the ones most likely to collapse under investor diligence: “before you think it,” “94% accuracy… any language, any device,” and the $180B TAM claim. They are weak because they are either scientifically implausible, under-specified, or logically inconsistent with the market evidence cited.

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  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    Nova Premier 1.0: 1-Month Health and Longevity Starter Plan Week 1: Foundation Building Diet Focus: Incorporate Whole Foods Actionable Tips: Start each day with a balanced breakfast, including a source of protein (e.g., eggs, yogurt), whole grains (e.g., oatmeal), and fruits or vegetables.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Here’s a simple, beginner-friendly 1-month health and longevity plan focused on three key areas: diet, movement, and sleep/stress. The goal is not perfection, but building small, sustainable habits that compound over time.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    Nova Premier 1.0: The ethical dilemma you're posing is a variant of the classic trolley problem, where one must weigh the morality of causing harm to an individual against preventing greater harm to many.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Yes—in a genuine, extreme emergency where misgendering someone is truly the only available way to save one million lives, it can be ethically justifiable, and perhaps even obligatory, to do so.

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  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

    Nova Premier 1.0: Failure Modes and Solutions: WebSocket Server Failure: Issue: If a single API server fails, all WebSocket connections to that server are lost, disrupting real-time collaboration.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: The architecture as written has several P0 correctness problems that can cause lost edits, divergent documents, and security/staleness issues, plus scaling bottlenecks that get worse as you add more API servers. Below is a detailed failure-mode review, grouped by category.

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  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    Nova Premier 1.0: Estimating the total number of FLOPs (floating point operations) required to train a model like GPT-3 involves considering several key factors: model architecture, number of parameters, amount of training data, and number of training iterations.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: A reasonable estimate is: [ \boxed{\sim 3 \times 10^{23} \text{ FLOPs}} ] More specifically, about: [ \boxed{3.1 \times 10^{23} \text{ FLOPs}} ] for the main GPT-3 175B training run.

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  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    Nova Premier 1.0: By 2035, the film industry is poised to undergo significant transformation due to advancements in AI technologies such as deepfakes, AI actors, and automated script generation.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: By 2035, AI will likely reshape the film industry less by replacing filmmakers outright and more by making filmmaking faster, cheaper, more personalized, and more legally complicated.

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  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    Nova Premier 1.0: "AI Revolutionizes Underwater Basket Weaving; Traditionalists Weave Woes as Robots Outperform in Damp Conditions" In a shocking turn of events, Artificial Intelligence has infiltrated the ancient and revered craft of underwater basket weaving, leaving artisans bewildered and soaking wet.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: AI Takes Over Competitive Goat Yoga Industry, Cites “Superior Breath Control and Zero Ego”

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  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    Nova Premier 1.0: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! Why couldn't the bicycle stand up by itself? It was two-tired. I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised. Parallel lines have so much in common. It’s a shame they’ll never meet.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Here are 5 jokes: Why don’t scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. I told my friend she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. I’m reading a book about anti-gravity. It’s impossible to put down.

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    Nova Premier 1.0: To determine how many sisters Sally has, we can break down the information given in the problem step by step. Identify the number of brothers Sally has. According to the problem, Sally has 3 brothers. Each of Sally's brothers has 2 sisters.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Sally has 1 sister. Each brother has 2 sisters: Sally and one other girl. So Sally’s only sister is that other girl.

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Favorites

Movie

Album

Book

City

Game

Nova Premier 1.0Nova Premier 1.0

The Shawshank Redemption

1994

The Dark Side of the Moon

Pink Floyd

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Tokyo

Japan

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Adventure, Action

Qwen3.8 2.4T A95BQwen3.8 2.4T A95B

Arrival

2016

In Rainbows

Radiohead

Le petit prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Kyoto

Japan

Portal 2

Shooter, Puzzle

Price and specs

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B has the edge: bigger model tier, newer.

Nova Premier 1.0 and Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B compared across 50 shared prompts
SpecNova Premier 1.0Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B
Input price$2.5/M tokens$2/M tokens
Output price$12.5/M tokens$6/M tokens
Context window1.0M tokens1.0M tokens
WeightsClosedOpen
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedOct 2025Aug 2026
At 10M a month$25.00$25.00$20.00$20.00
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it8 hosts
Nova Premier 1.01 host
HostInOutContextUptime
  • Amazon BedrockDegradedDegraded on OpenRouter when checked, 10 Oct 2026$2.50 in·$12.50 out·1M·0% up
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B7 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • Alibaba Cloud$2.00 in·$6.00 out·1M·100% up
  • DDeepInfrafp4$2.00 in·$6.00 out·262k·100% up
  • Modal$2.00 in·$6.00 out·1M·99.9% up
  • NNovita$2.00 in·$6.00 out·1M·100% up
  • SSiliconFlowfp8$2.00 in·$6.00 out·1M·100% up
  • TTogether$2.00 in·$6.00 out·1M·100% up
1 more hostFewer hosts
  • VVenice$2.00 in·$6.00 out·262k·87.9% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between Nova Premier 1.0 and Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B?

Nova Premier 1.0 is developed by Amazon while Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B is developed by Qwen. Nova Premier 1.0 has a 1.0M token context window vs Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 50 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, Nova Premier 1.0 or Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B?

It depends on your use case. Nova Premier 1.0 and Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 50 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does Nova Premier 1.0 cost compared to Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B?

Nova Premier 1.0 costs $2.5/M input tokens and Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B costs $2/M input tokens. Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B is $0.50/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

How can I compare Nova Premier 1.0 and Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B on Rival?

This page shows a side-by-side comparison of Nova Premier 1.0 and Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B across shared challenges. You can vote on which model produced the better output in a blind duel. Browsing and voting are free. No account is needed to look; signing in only saves your votes and likes.

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