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Model comparison

Amazon Nova Lite vs GPT-4.1 nano

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Lite Amazon

31.9

Rank #265 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 nano OpenAI

27.9

Rank #327 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 6 categories and GPT-4.1 nano in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 37.4 to 23.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Omni-MATH: 23.3% for Amazon Nova Lite and 36.7% for GPT-4.1 nano.
  • Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.10 / $0.40 for GPT-4.1 nano.
  • GPT-4.1 nano accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 300K.

Side by side

Amazon Nova LiteGPT-4.1 nano
ProviderAmazonOpenAI
Noometry Index31.927.9
Released2024-12-032025-04-14
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window300K1.05M
Max output10K33K
Input $ / M tokens$0.06$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$0.24$0.40
Results tracked3438

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Category by category

Coding Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), GPT-4.1 nano: 24.1 (#330)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Coding12391306
Aider Polyglot—8.9%
SciCode—25.9%
WeirdML—19%
LiveBench Coding27.5%—
ALE-Bench236.25—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 26.5 (#104)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-4.1 nano
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—33%

Reasoning Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), GPT-4.1 nano: 8.5 (#349)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Hard Prompts12201286
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—33.3%
ARC-AGI-1—0%
CritPt—0%
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%—
DTBench—52.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%—
LMCA—5.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—129.62
LiveBench36.4%—

Math Too close to call

Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), GPT-4.1 nano: 26.9 (#252)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-4.1 nano
Omni-MATH23.3%36.7%
LMArena Math12271274
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—28.9%
LiveBench Math36.7%—
MATH Level 5—70%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1%

Knowledge Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), GPT-4.1 nano: 21.8 (#273)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-4.1 nano
MMLU-Pro60%55%
GPQA (HELM)39.7%50.7%
LMArena Expert12011272
GPQA Diamond—48.9%
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%—
SimpleQA Verified—6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
MMLU77%—

Multimodal GPT-4.1 nano leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), GPT-4.1 nano: 29.2 (#113)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Vision9901063

Multilingual GPT-4.1 nano leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), GPT-4.1 nano: 41.6 (#205)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Non-English12081260
LMArena Chinese12251270
LMArena German12291288
LMArena Japanese11531198
LMArena Russian12161261
LMArena French1237—
LMArena Korean1153—
LMArena Spanish1226—

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 nano leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), GPT-4.1 nano: 67.8 (#193)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-4.1 nano
IFEval77.6%84.3%
LMArena Instruction Following12051267
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%—

Long Context Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), GPT-4.1 nano: 23.7 (#296)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Longer Query12341283
Fiction.LiveBench—25%

Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), GPT-4.1 nano: 40.5 (#243)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Text12291285
LMArena Creative Writing11971260
WildBench75%81.2%
LMArena Multi-Turn11991277
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—946
LiveBench Language25.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Lite better than GPT-4.1 nano?

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or GPT-4.1 nano?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; GPT-4.1 nano lists at $0.10 and $0.40.

Is Amazon Nova Lite or GPT-4.1 nano better for coding?

Amazon Nova Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.5 versus 24.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-4.1 nano does, with 1.05M tokens against 300K.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and GPT-4.1 nano share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 nano has 38.

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