Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Claude Haiku 5.5
Claude Haiku 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 1.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Haiku 5.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
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Summary
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude Haiku 5.5 leads 73.6 to 27.8.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.10 / $0.50 for Claude Haiku 5.5.
- Claude Haiku 5.5 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 300K.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Haiku 5.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Anthropic |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 49.5 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2026-10-07 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 300K | 1M |
| Max output | 10K | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | $0.50 |
| Results tracked | 34 | 9 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Haiku 5.5 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Claude Haiku 5.5: 49.2 (#50)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1587 |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
Reasoning Claude Haiku 5.5 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Claude Haiku 5.5: 35.2 (#69)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 65.7% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 30% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
Math Claude Haiku 5.5 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Claude Haiku 5.5: 73.6 (#18)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 75.1% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 46.3% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 98.9% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | — |
Knowledge Claude Haiku 5.5 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Claude Haiku 5.5: 50.8 (#70)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 89.6% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 23.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |
Multimodal Claude Haiku 5.5 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Claude Haiku 5.5: 43.7 (#21)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 47.5% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Claude Haiku 5.5: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Haiku 5.5: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Claude Haiku 5.5: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Claude Haiku 5.5: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Haiku 5.5?
Claude Haiku 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 1.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Haiku 5.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Claude Haiku 5.5?
Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Claude Haiku 5.5 lists at $0.10 and $0.50.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Claude Haiku 5.5 better for coding?
Claude Haiku 5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.2 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Claude Haiku 5.5 does, with 1M tokens against 300K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Claude Haiku 5.5 share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Claude Haiku 5.5 has 9.