Model comparison
Nova 2 Lite vs o1
o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 39.7 on the Noometry Index. Nova 2 Lite costs 31× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Nova 2 Lite scores higher in 2 categories and o1 in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where o1 leads 50.3 to 40.6.
- Nova 2 Lite is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $60 for o1.
- Nova 2 Lite accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 200K.
Side by side
| Nova 2 Lite | o1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 39.7 | 40.9 |
| Released | 2025-12-01 | 2024-09-12 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 1M | 200K |
| Max output | 64K | 100K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.30 | $15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2.50 | $60 |
| Results tracked | 19 | 52 |
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Category by category
Coding o1 leads
Nova 2 Lite: 40.7 (#134), o1: 46.1 (#70)
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1385 | 1367 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 61.7% |
| WeirdML | — | 47.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 69.7% |
| CadEval | — | 56% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 89% |
| MBPP+ | — | 80.2% |
Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call
Nova 2 Lite: 24.1 (#121), o1: 24.6 (#117)
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 27.1% | — |
| Cybench | — | 10% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 51.1% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Nova 2 Lite: 27.5 (#118), o1: 27.9 (#111)
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1364 | 1371 |
| SimpleBench | — | 41.7% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 30.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 15% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 5.7% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 91.6% |
| DTBench | — | 74.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65.5% |
| LMCA | — | 22.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 141.91 |
| LiveBench | — | 75.7% |
Math Nova 2 Lite leads
Nova 2 Lite: 37.5 (#156), o1: 36.1 (#175)
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1359 | 1388 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 14.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 73.3% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 80.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 94.7% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 9.3% |
Knowledge Nova 2 Lite leads
Nova 2 Lite: 43.0 (#94), o1: 41.5 (#110)
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1358 | 1361 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 76.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 41.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 11.7% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Nova 2 Lite: —, o1: 34.2 (#93)
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1168 |
| GeoBench | — | 80% |
| VPCT | — | 37% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 41.4% |
Multilingual o1 leads
Nova 2 Lite: 47.1 (#153), o1: 48.6 (#142)
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1337 | 1358 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1364 | 1394 |
| LMArena French | 1381 | 1344 |
| LMArena German | 1343 | 1337 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1271 | 1346 |
| LMArena Korean | 1284 | 1396 |
| LMArena Russian | 1343 | 1356 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1373 | 1345 |
Instruction Following o1 leads
Nova 2 Lite: 70.5 (#161), o1: 74.8 (#86)
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1335 | 1367 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.5% |
Long Context o1 leads
Nova 2 Lite: 40.6 (#150), o1: 50.3 (#9)
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1335 | 1378 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |
Writing & Preference o1 leads
Nova 2 Lite: 53.9 (#154), o1: 55.6 (#144)
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1362 | 1366 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1291 | 1348 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1338 | 1369 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 70.2% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 65.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Nova 2 Lite better than o1?
o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 39.7 on the Noometry Index. Nova 2 Lite costs 31× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Nova 2 Lite or o1?
Nova 2 Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; o1 lists at $15 and $60.
Is Nova 2 Lite or o1 better for coding?
o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.1 versus 40.7 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Nova 2 Lite does, with 1M tokens against 200K.
How many benchmarks do Nova 2 Lite and o1 share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nova 2 Lite has 19 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.