Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Claude Opus 4.1
Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 286× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 1 category and Claude Opus 4.1 in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4.1 leads 62.4 to 42.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Humanity's Last Exam: 3.6% for Amazon Nova Lite and 11.5% for Claude Opus 4.1.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $75 for Claude Opus 4.1.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 200K.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Opus 4.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Anthropic |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 41.0 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2025-08-05 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 300K | 200K |
| Max output | 10K | 32K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | $15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | $75 |
| Results tracked | 34 | 48 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Claude Opus 4.1: 44.4 (#73)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Opus 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1479 |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | 674.77 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 73.3% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1390 |
| WeirdML | — | 45.9% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.34 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: —, Claude Opus 4.1: 35.0 (#41)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Opus 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 38% |
| GDPval | — | 43.6% |
| Cybench | — | 42% |
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 48.3% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1148 |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 66.8% |
Reasoning Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Claude Opus 4.1: 32.2 (#76)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Opus 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1443 |
| SimpleBench | — | 60% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 7% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 7.2% |
| EBR-Bench | — | 7.9% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 21% |
| DTBench | — | 80% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LMCA | — | 37.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 144.12 |
| ForecastBench | — | 62 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
Math Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Claude Opus 4.1: 22.3 (#277)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Opus 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1431 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 12.6% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 2.4% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 68.9% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 7.2% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 4.2% |
Knowledge Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Claude Opus 4.1: 42.0 (#101)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Opus 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | 11.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | 11.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1439 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 77.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 17.1% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |
Multimodal Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Claude Opus 4.1: 26.8 (#119)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Opus 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |
| VPCT | — | 35% |
Multilingual Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Claude Opus 4.1: 52.0 (#95)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Opus 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1405 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1427 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1431 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1413 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1378 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1380 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1422 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1448 |
Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Claude Opus 4.1: 75.6 (#58)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Opus 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1435 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
Long Context Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#63)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Opus 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1455 |
Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Claude Opus 4.1: 62.4 (#74)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Opus 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1419 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1412 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1444 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 84.7% |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Claude Opus 4.1?
Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 286× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Claude Opus 4.1?
Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.1 lists at $15 and $75.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Claude Opus 4.1 better for coding?
Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.4 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 200K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Claude Opus 4.1 share?
20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Claude Opus 4.1 has 48.