Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Claude 3 Opus
Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Claude 3 Opus in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 27.8 to 14.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Language: 25.9% for Amazon Nova Lite and 50.4% for Claude 3 Opus.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 3 Opus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Anthropic |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 29.5 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-02-29 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 300K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | — |
| Results tracked | 34 | 46 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | 38.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1264 |
| WeirdML | — | 19.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 57.4% |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 77.4% |
| MBPP+ | — | 73.3% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: —, Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 10% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 29.5% |
Reasoning Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | 40.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1245 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | 57.9% |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | 49.2% |
| SimpleBench | — | 23.5% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.8% |
| DTBench | — | 61.6% |
| LMCA | — | 17% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 126.91 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.4 |
| WinoGrande | — | 88.5% |
Math Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | 43.6% |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1273 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 4.7% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 37.5% |
Knowledge Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1223 |
| MMLU | 77% | 84.6% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.2% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 12.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 22.7% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
Multimodal Claude 3 Opus leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | 1023 |
Multilingual Claude 3 Opus leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1258 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1248 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1275 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1258 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1204 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1187 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1280 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1246 |
Instruction Following Claude 3 Opus leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | 63.9% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1248 |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1259 |
Writing & Preference Claude 3 Opus leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1262 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1235 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1275 |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | 50.4% |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Claude 3 Opus?
Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Claude 3 Opus better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (32.5 vs 32.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Claude 3 Opus share?
26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Claude 3 Opus has 46.