Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Gemma 3 4B
Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 28.1 on the Noometry Index. Gemma 3 4B costs 2.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Amazon Nova Lite's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 4 categories and Gemma 3 4B in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 26.3 to 11.8.
- Gemma 3 4B is cheaper at $0.04 / $0.08 per million input/output tokens, against $0.06 / $0.24 for Amazon Nova Lite.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 131K.
- Gemma 3 4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 3 4B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 28.1 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2025-03-12 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | 131K |
| Max output | 10K | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | $0.04 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | $0.08 |
| Results tracked | 34 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemma 3 4B leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Gemma 3 4B: 35.9 (#215)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1230 |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: —, Gemma 3 4B: 20.9 (#142)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 19.6% |
Reasoning Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Gemma 3 4B: 13.2 (#335)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1253 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 25.2% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| DTBench | — | 50.9% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LMCA | — | 2.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 116.02 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
Math Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Gemma 3 4B: 16.8 (#292)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1239 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 7.5% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
Knowledge Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Gemma 3 4B: 11.8 (#299)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | 6.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1223 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 23.2% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Gemma 3 4B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |
Multilingual Gemma 3 4B leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Gemma 3 4B: 42.5 (#194)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1273 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1281 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1294 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | — |
| LMArena French | 1237 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | — |
Instruction Following Gemma 3 4B leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Gemma 3 4B: 65.2 (#225)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1239 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
Long Context Gemma 3 4B leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Gemma 3 4B: 38.7 (#194)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1273 |
Writing & Preference Too close to call
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Gemma 3 4B: 42.0 (#239)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1291 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1271 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1255 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1068 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Gemma 3 4B?
Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 28.1 on the Noometry Index. Gemma 3 4B costs 2.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Amazon Nova Lite's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Gemma 3 4B?
Gemma 3 4B is cheaper. It lists at $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.08 per million output tokens; Amazon Nova Lite lists at $0.06 and $0.24.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Gemma 3 4B better for coding?
Gemma 3 4B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Gemma 3 4B share?
13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 4B has 22.