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Amazon Nova Lite vs Gemini 3 Flash Preview

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 11× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3 Flash Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Lite Amazon

31.9

Rank #265 Confirmed

Gemini 3 Flash Preview Google

52.3

Rank #40 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3 Flash Preview in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads 58.8 to 26.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Vectara Hallucination Rate: 6.1% for Amazon Nova Lite and 13.5% for Gemini 3 Flash Preview.
  • Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $3 for Gemini 3 Flash Preview.
  • Gemini 3 Flash Preview accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 300K.

Side by side

Amazon Nova LiteGemini 3 Flash Preview
ProviderAmazonGoogle
Noometry Index31.952.3
Released2024-12-032025-12-17
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window300K1.05M
Max output10K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.06$0.50
Output $ / M tokens$0.24$3
Results tracked3459

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 50.9 (#42)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Coding12391460
ALE-Bench236.251,367
SWE-bench Verified—75.4%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—75.8%
LMArena WebDev—1439
SWE-bench Multilingual—72.7%
GSO—9.8%
WeirdML—61.6%
LiveBench Coding27.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: —, Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 38.7 (#29)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGemini 3 Flash Preview
Terminal-Bench—64.3%
τ²-bench Airline—82.5%
τ²-bench Banking—27.3%
τ²-bench Retail—76.8%
τ²-bench Telecom—91.2%
DeepResearch Bench—49.8%
BALROG—48.1%
GDP.pdf—10%
LMArena Search—1198
Vending-Bench 2—3,635

Reasoning Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 49.2 (#37)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Hard Prompts12201465
ARC-AGI-2—33.6%
SimpleBench—61.1%
NYT Connections (extended)—83.1%
ARC-AGI-1—84.7%
Chess Puzzles—40%
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—26%
DTBench—89.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%—
LMCA—43.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—151.8
ForecastBench—58.5
LiveBench36.4%—

Math Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.7 (#55)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Math12271473
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—51.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4—17.1%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—67.6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—95.6%
ProofBench—15%
Omni-MATH23.3%—
LiveBench Math36.7%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—35.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—4.2%

Knowledge Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 58.8 (#33)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGemini 3 Flash Preview
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%13.5%
LMArena Expert12011462
GPQA Diamond—89.4%
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%—
SimpleQA Verified—66.8%
MMLU-Pro60%—
GPQA (HELM)39.7%—
MMLU77%—

Multimodal Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 45.5 (#16)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Vision9901285
GeoBench—88%
VPCT—72.6%
Blueprint-Bench 2—0%
LMArena Document—1413

Multilingual Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 55.7 (#27)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Non-English12081458
LMArena Chinese12251511
LMArena French12371477
LMArena German12291497
LMArena Japanese11531489
LMArena Korean11531443
LMArena Russian12161480
LMArena Spanish12261469

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 75.7 (#56)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Instruction Following12051437
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%—
IFEval77.6%—

Long Context Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 44.4 (#67)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Longer Query12341452

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 65.5 (#45)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Text12291466
LMArena Creative Writing11971457
LMArena Multi-Turn11991471
WildBench75%—
LiveBench Language25.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Gemini 3 Flash Preview?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 11× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3 Flash Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Gemini 3 Flash Preview?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Gemini 3 Flash Preview lists at $0.50 and $3.

Is Amazon Nova Lite or Gemini 3 Flash Preview better for coding?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.9 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview does, with 1.05M tokens against 300K.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Gemini 3 Flash Preview share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3 Flash Preview has 59.

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