Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.8 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 32 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 32 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 74.6 to 59.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Reasoning: 36.7% for Amazon Nova Lite and 78.2% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025).
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | |
| Noometry Index | 31.4 | 34.8 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-12-06 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 300K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | — |
| Results tracked | 34 | 54 |
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Category by category
Coding Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.0 (#266), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.2 (#308)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | 63.4% |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1351 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 13.5% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 38.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 25.8% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45.9% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 59.9% |
| CadEval | — | 30% |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.0 (#85)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 11.4% |
Reasoning Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 18.5 (#257), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#308)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | 78.2% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1346 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | 69.4% |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | 66.9% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 1.3% |
| SimpleBench | — | 31.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.8% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 1.1% |
| DTBench | — | 63.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 135.36 |
Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.8 (#243), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.1 (#127)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | 45.9% |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | 75.8% |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1351 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 57.8% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 82.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |
Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.0 (#254), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#207)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | 6.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | 73.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | 55.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1340 |
| MMLU | 77% | 79.7% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 64.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 12.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
Multimodal Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.0 (#118), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 35.9 (#74)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | 1158 |
| GeoBench | — | 77% |
Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.2 (#227), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.6 (#144)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1342 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1373 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1390 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1354 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1293 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1314 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1351 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1363 |
Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.6 (#250), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.6 (#91)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | 85.8% |
| IFEval | 77.6% | 84.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1336 |
Long Context Too close to call
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#212), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#198)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1345 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 61.1% |
Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.3 (#232), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.8 (#184)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1354 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1340 |
| WildBench | 75% | 80% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1350 |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | 51.3% |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 73.8% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1128 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)?
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.8 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better for coding?
Amazon Nova Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.0 versus 28.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) share?
32 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54.