Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
Amazon Nova Lite and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.4 vs 32.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 4 categories and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 42.3 to 34.3.
- Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 31.4 | 32.4 |
| 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 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.0 (#266), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 32.3 (#263)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1130 |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
Reasoning Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 18.5 (#257), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 20.8 (#214)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1127 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
Math Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.8 (#243), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.9 (#202)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1173 |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
Knowledge Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.0 (#254), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 29.6 (#226)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1108 |
| 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: 25.0 (#118), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |
Multilingual Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.2 (#227), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.8 (#258)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1094 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1108 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1109 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1101 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1042 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 954 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1145 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1095 |
Instruction Following Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.6 (#250), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 57.8 (#263)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1114 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
Long Context Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#212), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 33.9 (#250)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1120 |
Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.3 (#232), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.3 (#267)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1138 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1106 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1088 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct?
Amazon Nova Lite and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.4 vs 32.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (32.0 vs 32.3); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has 17.