Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Claude 2.1
Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Claude 2.1 in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 27.8 to 10.2.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 2.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Anthropic |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 25.2 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2023-11-21 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 300K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | — |
| Results tracked | 34 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Claude 2.1: 26.2 (#327)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | — | 7.1% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
Reasoning Claude 2.1 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Claude 2.1: 21.4 (#221)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | — |
| DTBench | — | 51% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 119.27 |
| ForecastBench | — | 54.2 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
Math Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Claude 2.1: 10.2 (#315)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 1.9% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | — |
Knowledge Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Claude 2.1: 15.4 (#292)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 77% | 73.5% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 33% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Claude 2.1: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Claude 2.1: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| 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), Claude 2.1: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Claude 2.1: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Claude 2.1: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Claude 2.1?
Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Claude 2.1 better for coding?
Amazon Nova Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.5 versus 26.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Claude 2.1 share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Claude 2.1 has 7.