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Model comparison

Amazon Nova Lite vs Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 95× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.6's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Lite Amazon

31.9

Rank #265 Confirmed

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 0 categories and Claude Opus 4.6 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 57.8 to 19.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Humanity's Last Exam: 3.6% for Amazon Nova Lite and 34.4% for Claude Opus 4.6.
  • Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.6.
  • Claude Opus 4.6 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 300K.

Side by side

Amazon Nova LiteClaude Opus 4.6
ProviderAmazonAnthropic
Noometry Index31.958.2
Released2024-12-032026-02-04
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window300K1M
Max output10K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.06$5
Output $ / M tokens$0.24$25
Results tracked3468

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteClaude Opus 4.6
LMArena Coding12391536
ALE-Bench236.25996.5
SWE-bench Verified—78.7%
FrontierCode—26.6%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—75.6%
LMArena WebDev—1547
SWE-bench Multilingual—72%
GSO—41.2%
WeirdML—78%
LiveBench Coding27.5%—
AlgoTune—1.47

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: —, Claude Opus 4.6: 51.1 (#4)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteClaude Opus 4.6
Terminal-Bench—79.8%
APEX-Agents—46.3%
Remote Labor Index—4.2%
τ²-bench Banking—27.3%
Cybench—93%
DeepResearch Bench—55.3%
GBAEval—44.1%
LMArena Search—1253
METR Time Horizons—78.9%
Vending-Bench 2—8,018

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Claude Opus 4.6: 57.8 (#23)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteClaude Opus 4.6
LMArena Hard Prompts12201527
ARC-AGI-2—69.2%
SimpleBench—67.6%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—83.6%
NYT Connections (extended)—92.1%
ARC-AGI-1—94%
Chess Puzzles—17%
EnigmaEval—7.6%
Thematic Generalization—80.6%
EBR-Bench—12.7%
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—25%
DTBench—91.2%
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%—
LMCA—55.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index—155.24
ForecastBench—60
LiveBench36.4%—

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Claude Opus 4.6: 63.0 (#31)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteClaude Opus 4.6
LMArena Math12271519
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—66%
FrontierMath Tier 4—26.8%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—78.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—94.4%
ProofBench—50%
Omni-MATH23.3%—
LiveBench Math36.7%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—40.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—22.9%

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteClaude Opus 4.6
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%34.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%12.2%
LMArena Expert12011546
GPQA Diamond—90.5%
SimpleQA Verified—47%
MMLU-Pro60%—
GPQA (HELM)39.7%—
MMLU77%—

Multimodal Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteClaude Opus 4.6
LMArena Vision9901316
Furniture Assembly—28.3%
LMArena Document—1507

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteClaude Opus 4.6
LMArena Non-English12081489
LMArena Chinese12251551
LMArena French12371513
LMArena German12291502
LMArena Japanese11531484
LMArena Korean11531464
LMArena Russian12161497
LMArena Spanish12261510

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteClaude Opus 4.6
LMArena Instruction Following12051523
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%—
IFEval77.6%—

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteClaude Opus 4.6
LMArena Longer Query12341520
CL-bench—20.7%
CL-bench Life—17%

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteClaude Opus 4.6
LMArena Text12291503
LMArena Creative Writing11971505
LMArena Multi-Turn11991513
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1809
WildBench75%—
EQ-Bench 4—1223
LiveBench Language25.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Claude Opus 4.6?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 95× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.6's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Claude Opus 4.6?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.6 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Amazon Nova Lite or Claude Opus 4.6 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.2 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.6 does, with 1M tokens against 300K.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Claude Opus 4.6 share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Claude Opus 4.6 has 68.

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