Noometry

Model comparison

Amazon Nova Lite vs Granite 4.2 8B

Granite 4.2 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Lite Amazon

31.9

Rank #265 Confirmed

Granite 4.2 8B IBM

40.5

Rank #148 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 0 categories and Granite 4.2 8B in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 4.2 8B leads 38.4 to 26.3.
  • Both cost about the same: $0.06 input and $0.24 output per million tokens.
  • Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 131K.
  • Granite 4.2 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova LiteGranite 4.2 8B
ProviderAmazonIBM
Noometry Index31.940.5
Released2024-12-03—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window300K131K
Max output10K118K
Input $ / M tokens$0.06$0.06
Output $ / M tokens$0.24$0.25
Results tracked3411

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Category by category

Coding Granite 4.2 8B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Granite 4.2 8B: 40.5 (#137)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Coding12391380
LiveBench Coding27.5%—
ALE-Bench236.25—

Reasoning Granite 4.2 8B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Granite 4.2 8B: 26.6 (#131)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Hard Prompts12201329
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%—
LiveBench36.4%—

Math Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Granite 4.2 8B: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGranite 4.2 8B
Omni-MATH23.3%—
LiveBench Math36.7%—
LMArena Math1227—

Knowledge Granite 4.2 8B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Granite 4.2 8B: 38.4 (#145)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Expert12011384
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%—
MMLU-Pro60%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
GPQA (HELM)39.7%—
MMLU77%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Granite 4.2 8B: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Vision990—

Multilingual Granite 4.2 8B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Granite 4.2 8B: 44.5 (#178)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Non-English12081302
LMArena Chinese12251366
LMArena Russian12161285
LMArena French1237—
LMArena German1229—
LMArena Japanese1153—
LMArena Korean1153—
LMArena Spanish1226—

Instruction Following Granite 4.2 8B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Granite 4.2 8B: 68.7 (#184)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Instruction Following12051301
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%—
IFEval77.6%—

Long Context Granite 4.2 8B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Granite 4.2 8B: 40.3 (#159)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Longer Query12341324

Writing & Preference Granite 4.2 8B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Granite 4.2 8B: 49.6 (#189)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Text12291320
LMArena Creative Writing11971236
LMArena Multi-Turn11991301
WildBench75%—
LiveBench Language25.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Granite 4.2 8B?

Granite 4.2 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Granite 4.2 8B?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Granite 4.2 8B lists at $0.06 and $0.25.

Is Amazon Nova Lite or Granite 4.2 8B better for coding?

Granite 4.2 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.5 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Granite 4.2 8B share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 8B has 11.

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