Noometry

Model comparison

Amazon Nova Lite vs Claude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 95× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.8's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Lite Amazon

31.9

Rank #265 Confirmed

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #13 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 0 categories and Claude Opus 4.8 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 78.4 to 27.8.
  • Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.8.
  • Claude Opus 4.8 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 300K.

Side by side

Amazon Nova LiteClaude Opus 4.8
ProviderAmazonAnthropic
Noometry Index31.960.7
Released2024-12-032026-05-28
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window300K1M
Max output10K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.06$5
Output $ / M tokens$0.24$25
Results tracked3465

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Claude Opus 4.8: 59.9 (#12)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Coding12391490
ALE-Bench236.251,564
DeepSWE—59%
FrontierCode—46.5%
LMArena WebDev—1556
SciCode—53.5%
GSO—47.1%
WeirdML—82.9%
LiveBench Coding27.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: —, Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#11)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteClaude Opus 4.8
APEX-Agents—48.9%
OSWorld 2.0—20.6%
Remote Labor Index—8.3%
τ²-bench Banking—39.7%
DeepResearch Bench—50.2%
PostTrainBench—33.8%
GBAEval—70.9%
GDP.pdf—24%
LMArena Search—1204
Vending-Bench 2—5,787

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Claude Opus 4.8: 64.7 (#16)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Hard Prompts12201482
ARC-AGI-2—72.1%
SimpleBench—64.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—88.8%
NYT Connections (extended)—91.1%
ARC-AGI-1—92.5%
CritPt—20.9%
Chess Puzzles—34%
EnigmaEval—23.5%
EBR-Bench—28.6%
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—36%
DTBench—94.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%—
LMCA—57.5%
Surface Evolver Bench—87.5%
Bench to the Future 3—0.14
Epoch Capabilities Index—158.21
ForecastBench—59.9
LiveBench36.4%—

Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Claude Opus 4.8: 78.4 (#13)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Math12271487
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—80%
FrontierMath Tier 4—56.1%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—91.8%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—98.3%
ProofBench—69%
Omni-MATH23.3%—
LiveBench Math36.7%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—47.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—31.3%

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#29)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Expert12011502
GPQA Diamond—91%
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%—
SimpleQA Verified—53%
MMLU-Pro60%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
GPQA (HELM)39.7%—
MMLU77%—

Multimodal Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Claude Opus 4.8: 42.9 (#26)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Vision9901294
Blueprint-Bench 2—14.5%
Furniture Assembly—42.5%
LMArena Document—1475

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Claude Opus 4.8: 55.2 (#33)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Non-English12081450
LMArena Chinese12251507
LMArena French12371481
LMArena German12291472
LMArena Japanese11531440
LMArena Korean11531432
LMArena Russian12161474
LMArena Spanish12261466

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Claude Opus 4.8: 77.4 (#24)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Instruction Following12051476
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%—
IFEval77.6%—

Long Context Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#35)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Longer Query12341483

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Claude Opus 4.8: 72.0 (#16)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteClaude Opus 4.8
LMArena Text12291461
LMArena Creative Writing11971454
LMArena Multi-Turn11991476
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1840
WildBench75%—
EQ-Bench 4—1281
LiveBench Language25.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Claude Opus 4.8?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 95× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.8's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Claude Opus 4.8?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Amazon Nova Lite or Claude Opus 4.8 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.8 does, with 1M tokens against 300K.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Claude Opus 4.8 share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Claude Opus 4.8 has 65.

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