Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
Amazon Nova Lite and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 32.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) in 7 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multimodal, where Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads 36.8 to 25.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 60% for Amazon Nova Lite and 73.7% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024).
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 32.1 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-02-15 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 300K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | — |
| Results tracked | 34 | 45 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1294 |
| WeirdML | — | 22.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 43.8% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 57.5% |
| CadEval | — | 34% |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 79.3% |
| MBPP+ | — | 74.6% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 3.4% |
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |
| BALROG | — | 21% |
Reasoning Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1296 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.8% |
| SimpleBench | — | 27.1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| DTBench | — | 59% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 89.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 131.73 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.4 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
Math Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | 36.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1315 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 23.1% |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 70.4% |
Knowledge Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | 4.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | 73.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | 53.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1279 |
| MMLU | 77% | 86.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 57.2% |
| Confabulations | — | 13.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
Multimodal Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | 1161 |
| Video-MME | — | 75% |
Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1312 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1331 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1302 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1286 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1292 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1298 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1320 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1311 |
Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 77.6% | 83.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
Long Context Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1308 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1319 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1333 |
| WildBench | 75% | 81.3% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1296 |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)?
Amazon Nova Lite and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 32.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better for coding?
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.2 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) share?
25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45.