Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Qwen3.5 Plus
Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 8.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3.5 Plus's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 Plus in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.5 Plus leads 49.6 to 27.8.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $2.40 for Qwen3.5 Plus.
- Qwen3.5 Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 300K.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3.5 Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 42.9 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2026-02-16 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 300K | 1M |
| Max output | 10K | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | $2.40 |
| Results tracked | 34 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | 621.92 |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: —, Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 0.54 |
Reasoning Qwen3.5 Plus leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.8 (#74)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 22% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 17% |
| DTBench | — | 80.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LMCA | — | 36.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 146.78 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
Math Qwen3.5 Plus leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Qwen3.5 Plus: 49.6 (#61)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 86.7% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 21% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 2.1% |
Knowledge Qwen3.5 Plus leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#83)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | 10.7% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 84.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 25.4% |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | — |
| LMArena French | 1237 | — |
| LMArena German | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | — |
Long Context Qwen3.5 Plus leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Qwen3.5 Plus: 43.0 (#113)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| CL-bench | — | 19.8% |
| CL-bench Life | — | 12.4% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | — |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Qwen3.5 Plus?
Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 8.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3.5 Plus's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Qwen3.5 Plus?
Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Qwen3.5 Plus lists at $0.40 and $2.40.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen3.5 Plus does, with 1M tokens against 300K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Qwen3.5 Plus share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.