Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multimodal, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 36.0 to 25.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 60% for Amazon Nova Lite and 67.8% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024).
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 33.2 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-05-14 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 300K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | — |
| Results tracked | 34 | 42 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1261 |
| WeirdML | — | 24.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 43.5% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 55.1% |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 75.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 67.5% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 14.6% |
Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1257 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| DTBench | — | 53.8% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 129.36 |
| ForecastBench | — | 53.9 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
| PIQA | — | 87.5% |
Math Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | 30.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1269 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 16.3% |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 61.9% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0% |
| GSM8K | — | 82.4% |
Knowledge Too close to call
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | 67.8% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | 43.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1233 |
| MMLU | 77% | 77.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.3% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| BoolQ | — | 85.8% |
Multimodal Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | 1141 |
| Video-MME | — | 70.3% |
| GeoBench | — | 76% |
Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1278 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1295 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1258 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1262 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1252 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1221 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1288 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1243 |
Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 77.6% | 83.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1258 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1284 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1285 |
| WildBench | 75% | 79.2% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1253 |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)?
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better for coding?
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) share?
24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42.