Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Llama 4 Maverick
Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 5 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 4 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Llama 4 Maverick leads 71.7 to 59.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA (HELM): 39.7% for Amazon Nova Lite and 65% for Llama 4 Maverick.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.19 / $0.65 for Llama 4 Maverick.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 128K.
- Llama 4 Maverick has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 4 Maverick | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 30.9 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2025-04-05 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | 128K |
| Max output | 10K | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | $0.19 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | $0.65 |
| Results tracked | 34 | 54 |
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Category by category
Coding Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1302 |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | 172.97 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 21% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 15.6% |
| SciCode | — | 33.1% |
| WeirdML | — | 24.5% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 49.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 61.4% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.3% |
Reasoning Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1281 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| SimpleBench | — | 27.7% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 55.9% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 4.4% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.6% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| DTBench | — | 61.9% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LMCA | — | 15.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 132.2 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.5 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
Math Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | 42.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1299 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 20.6% |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 73% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.7% |
Knowledge Llama 4 Maverick leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | 5.7% |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | 81% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | 8.2% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | 65% |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1259 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 67% |
| Confabulations | — | 22.6% |
| MMLU | 77% | — |
Multimodal Llama 4 Maverick leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | 1142 |
| GeoBench | — | 52% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 31.8% |
Multilingual Llama 4 Maverick leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1269 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1277 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1259 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1291 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1207 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1203 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1286 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1293 |
Instruction Following Llama 4 Maverick leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 77.6% | 90.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1267 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
Long Context Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1280 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 46.2% |
Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1267 |
| WildBench | 75% | 80% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1289 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 62% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 860 |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Llama 4 Maverick?
Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Llama 4 Maverick?
Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Llama 4 Maverick lists at $0.19 and $0.65.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?
Amazon Nova Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.5 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Llama 4 Maverick share?
26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.