Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Claude Sonnet 4
Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 57× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Sonnet 4's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 1 category and Claude Sonnet 4 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude Sonnet 4 leads 43.3 to 27.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Omni-MATH: 23.3% for Amazon Nova Lite and 60.2% for Claude Sonnet 4.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $3 / $15 for Claude Sonnet 4.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 200K.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Sonnet 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Anthropic |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 40.8 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2025-05-22 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 300K | 200K |
| Max output | 10K | 64K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | $3 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | $15 |
| Results tracked | 34 | 58 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Claude Sonnet 4: 43.5 (#88)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Sonnet 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1414 |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | 655.35 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 64.9% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 61.3% |
| SciCode | — | 40% |
| GSO | — | 4.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 46.1% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: —, Claude Sonnet 4: 38.5 (#31)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Sonnet 4 |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 33.1% |
| Cybench | — | 35% |
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 46.6% |
| OSWorld | — | 43.9% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 62% |
Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Claude Sonnet 4: 22.9 (#187)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Sonnet 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1372 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 5.9% |
| SimpleBench | — | 45.5% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 73% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 40% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 3.1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| DTBench | — | 77.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LMCA | — | 29% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 141.69 |
| ForecastBench | — | 60.2 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
Math Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Claude Sonnet 4: 43.3 (#80)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Sonnet 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | 60.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1375 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 71.1% |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 84.4% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 4.1% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 0% |
Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Claude Sonnet 4: 41.8 (#108)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Sonnet 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | 7.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | 84.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | 10.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | 70.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1372 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 79.2% |
| Confabulations | — | 13.2% |
| MMLU | 77% | — |
Multimodal Too close to call
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Claude Sonnet 4: 26.2 (#121)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Sonnet 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | 1191 |
| GeoBench | — | 37% |
| VPCT | — | 34% |
| MindCube | — | 44.8% |
Multilingual Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Claude Sonnet 4: 46.7 (#156)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Sonnet 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1333 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1350 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1363 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1331 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1302 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1291 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1355 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1357 |
Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Claude Sonnet 4: 71.7 (#145)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Sonnet 4 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 77.6% | 84% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1376 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
Long Context Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Claude Sonnet 4: 33.7 (#259)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Sonnet 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1398 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 46.9% |
Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Claude Sonnet 4: 57.1 (#132)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Sonnet 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1351 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1345 |
| WildBench | 75% | 83.8% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1376 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 81.4% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1483 |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Claude Sonnet 4?
Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 57× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Sonnet 4's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Claude Sonnet 4?
Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 4 lists at $3 and $15.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Claude Sonnet 4 better for coding?
Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 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 Sonnet 4 share?
26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Claude Sonnet 4 has 58.