Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Granite 4.2 3b
Granite 4.2 3b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 0 categories and Granite 4.2 3b in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 4.2 3b leads 36.3 to 26.3.
- Granite 4.2 3b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 4.2 3b | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 39.4 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | — |
| Results tracked | 34 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Granite 4.2 3b leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Granite 4.2 3b: 40.0 (#151)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1361 |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
Reasoning Granite 4.2 3b leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Granite 4.2 3b: 26.0 (#138)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1306 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
Math Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Granite 4.2 3b: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | — |
Knowledge Granite 4.2 3b leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Granite 4.2 3b: 36.3 (#171)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1315 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Granite 4.2 3b: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |
Multilingual Granite 4.2 3b leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Granite 4.2 3b: 42.1 (#198)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1268 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1269 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1249 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | — |
| LMArena German | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | — |
Instruction Following Granite 4.2 3b leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Granite 4.2 3b: 67.1 (#200)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1273 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
Long Context Granite 4.2 3b leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Granite 4.2 3b: 39.2 (#185)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1291 |
Writing & Preference Granite 4.2 3b leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Granite 4.2 3b: 47.2 (#212)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1293 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1205 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1290 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Granite 4.2 3b?
Granite 4.2 3b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Granite 4.2 3b better for coding?
Granite 4.2 3b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.0 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Granite 4.2 3b share?
11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 3b has 11.