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Model comparison

Amazon Nova Lite vs GLM-4.6V

GLM-4.6V is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.3 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 4.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-4.6V's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Lite Amazon

31.9

Rank #265 Confirmed

GLM-4.6V Z.ai (Zhipu)

41.3

Rank #137 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 0 categories and GLM-4.6V in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GLM-4.6V leads 56.6 to 42.1.
  • Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $0.90 for GLM-4.6V.
  • Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 128K.
  • GLM-4.6V has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova LiteGLM-4.6V
ProviderAmazonZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index31.941.3
Released2024-12-032025-12-08
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window300K128K
Max output10K33K
Input $ / M tokens$0.06$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$0.24$0.90
Results tracked3412

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Category by category

Coding GLM-4.6V leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), GLM-4.6V: 40.9 (#128)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGLM-4.6V
LMArena Coding12391390
LiveBench Coding27.5%—
ALE-Bench236.25—

Reasoning GLM-4.6V leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), GLM-4.6V: 27.6 (#115)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGLM-4.6V
LMArena Hard Prompts12201368
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%—
LiveBench36.4%—

Math Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), GLM-4.6V: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGLM-4.6V
Omni-MATH23.3%—
LiveBench Math36.7%—
LMArena Math1227—

Knowledge GLM-4.6V leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), GLM-4.6V: 38.0 (#149)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGLM-4.6V
LMArena Expert12011371
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%—
MMLU-Pro60%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
GPQA (HELM)39.7%—
MMLU77%—

Multimodal GLM-4.6V leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), GLM-4.6V: 34.8 (#90)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGLM-4.6V
LMArena Vision9901164

Multilingual GLM-4.6V leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), GLM-4.6V: 48.6 (#141)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGLM-4.6V
LMArena Non-English12081359
LMArena Chinese12251425
LMArena Russian12161340
LMArena French1237—
LMArena German1229—
LMArena Japanese1153—
LMArena Korean1153—
LMArena Spanish1226—

Instruction Following GLM-4.6V leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), GLM-4.6V: 71.4 (#151)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGLM-4.6V
LMArena Instruction Following12051352
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%—
IFEval77.6%—

Long Context GLM-4.6V leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), GLM-4.6V: 41.3 (#143)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGLM-4.6V
LMArena Longer Query12341358

Writing & Preference GLM-4.6V leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), GLM-4.6V: 56.6 (#137)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGLM-4.6V
LMArena Text12291377
LMArena Creative Writing11971347
LMArena Multi-Turn11991360
WildBench75%—
LiveBench Language25.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Lite better than GLM-4.6V?

GLM-4.6V is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.3 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 4.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-4.6V's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or GLM-4.6V?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; GLM-4.6V lists at $0.30 and $0.90.

Is Amazon Nova Lite or GLM-4.6V better for coding?

GLM-4.6V scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.9 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and GLM-4.6V share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.6V has 12.

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