Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Phi-4
Amazon Nova Lite and Phi-4 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 5 categories and Phi-4 in 3 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 27.8 to 20.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Reasoning: 36.7% for Amazon Nova Lite and 47.8% for Phi-4.
- Phi-4 is cheaper at $0.07 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.06 / $0.24 for Amazon Nova Lite.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 128K.
- Phi-4 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Phi-4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 31.2 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-12-11 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | 128K |
| Max output | 10K | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | $0.07 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | $0.14 |
| Results tracked | 34 | 37 |
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Category by category
Coding Phi-4 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Phi-4: 34.4 (#239)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | 30.7% |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1231 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 55.4% |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: —, Phi-4: 22.8 (#128)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 28.8% |
| BALROG | — | 11.6% |
Reasoning Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Phi-4: 17.7 (#291)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | 47.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1220 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | 45.2% |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | 41.6% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 130.42 |
Math Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Phi-4: 20.8 (#285)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | 42% |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1246 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 13.8% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 64.9% |
Knowledge Phi-4 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Phi-4: 32.6 (#209)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | 3.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1203 |
| MMLU | 77% | 84.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.1% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 29.4% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Phi-4: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |
Multilingual Too close to call
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Phi-4: 37.2 (#237)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1197 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1212 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1224 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1222 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1158 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1151 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1209 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1234 |
Instruction Following Phi-4 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Phi-4: 60.4 (#251)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | 58.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1201 |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Phi-4: 36.9 (#226)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1217 |
Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Phi-4: 40.5 (#244)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1217 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1182 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1206 |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | 25.6% |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 62.6% |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Phi-4?
Amazon Nova Lite and Phi-4 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Phi-4?
Phi-4 is cheaper. It lists at $0.07 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Amazon Nova Lite lists at $0.06 and $0.24.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Phi-4 better for coding?
Phi-4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 32.5 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 Phi-4 share?
26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.