Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Gemma 4 31B IT
Gemma 4 31B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 0 categories and Gemma 4 31B IT in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemma 4 31B IT leads 60.5 to 42.1.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.09 / $0.34 for Gemma 4 31B IT.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 262K.
- Gemma 4 31B IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 4 31B IT | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 43.5 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2026-04-02 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | 262K |
| Max output | 10K | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | $0.09 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | $0.34 |
| Results tracked | 34 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemma 4 31B IT leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Gemma 4 31B IT: 42.3 (#108)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 4 31B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1459 |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | 925.5 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1366 |
| SciCode | — | 43.4% |
| WeirdML | — | 52.3% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
Reasoning Gemma 4 31B IT leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Gemma 4 31B IT: 27.2 (#122)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 4 31B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1448 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 63.5% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 70.6% |
| CritPt | — | 1.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 53% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| DTBench | — | 82.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LMCA | — | 39.3% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 30.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 142.74 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
Math Gemma 4 31B IT leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Gemma 4 31B IT: 43.2 (#81)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 4 31B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1465 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 73.3% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
Knowledge Gemma 4 31B IT leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Gemma 4 31B IT: 37.9 (#151)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 4 31B IT |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | 7.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1465 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 75.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 10.4% |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |
Multimodal Gemma 4 31B IT leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Gemma 4 31B IT: 41.6 (#34)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 4 31B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | 1277 |
| LMArena Document | — | 1425 |
Multilingual Gemma 4 31B IT leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Gemma 4 31B IT: 53.8 (#57)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 4 31B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1431 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1476 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1435 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1460 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1444 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | — |
Instruction Following Gemma 4 31B IT leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Gemma 4 31B IT: 75.5 (#61)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 4 31B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1433 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
Long Context Gemma 4 31B IT leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Gemma 4 31B IT: 44.2 (#71)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 4 31B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1446 |
Writing & Preference Gemma 4 31B IT leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Gemma 4 31B IT: 60.5 (#96)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 4 31B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1443 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1415 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1452 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1368 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1120 |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Gemma 4 31B IT?
Gemma 4 31B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Gemma 4 31B IT?
Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Gemma 4 31B IT lists at $0.09 and $0.34.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Gemma 4 31B IT better for coding?
Gemma 4 31B IT scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.3 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Gemma 4 31B IT share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 4 31B IT has 35.