Noometry

Model comparison

Amazon Nova Lite vs GPT-4.5

GPT-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.2 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Lite Amazon

31.9

Rank #265 Confirmed

GPT-4.5 OpenAI

37.2

Rank #208 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 1 category and GPT-4.5 in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4.5 leads 56.9 to 42.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Coding: 27.5% for Amazon Nova Lite and 75.2% for GPT-4.5.

Side by side

Amazon Nova LiteGPT-4.5
ProviderAmazonOpenAI
Noometry Index31.937.2
Released2024-12-032025-02-27
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window300K—
Max output10K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.06—
Output $ / M tokens$0.24—
Results tracked3442

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4.5 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), GPT-4.5: 42.2 (#109)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-4.5
LiveBench Coding27.5%75.2%
LMArena Coding12391396
Aider Polyglot—44.9%
WeirdML—39.4%
ALE-Bench236.25—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: —, GPT-4.5: 27.9 (#97)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-4.5
Cybench—17.5%

Reasoning Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), GPT-4.5: 13.9 (#330)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-4.5
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%71.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts12201403
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%64.3%
LiveBench36.4%69%
ARC-AGI-2—0.8%
SimpleBench—34.5%
ARC-AGI-1—10.3%
EnigmaEval—3.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—136.74
ForecastBench—61.7

Math GPT-4.5 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), GPT-4.5: 32.6 (#211)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-4.5
LiveBench Math36.7%69.3%
LMArena Math12271412
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—37.8%
Omni-MATH23.3%—
MATH Level 5—78.6%

Knowledge GPT-4.5 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), GPT-4.5: 32.5 (#211)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-4.5
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%5.4%
LMArena Expert12011394
GPQA Diamond—68.7%
MMLU-Pro60%—
Confabulations—13.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
GPQA (HELM)39.7%—
MMLU77%—

Multimodal GPT-4.5 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), GPT-4.5: 37.6 (#71)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-4.5
LMArena Vision9901195
VPCT—45%

Multilingual GPT-4.5 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), GPT-4.5: 52.5 (#83)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-4.5
LMArena Non-English12081413
LMArena Chinese12251421
LMArena French12371418
LMArena German12291457
LMArena Japanese11531416
LMArena Korean11531392
LMArena Russian12161419
LMArena Spanish1226—

Instruction Following GPT-4.5 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), GPT-4.5: 72.6 (#134)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-4.5
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%72.3%
LMArena Instruction Following12051404
IFEval77.6%—

Long Context GPT-4.5 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), GPT-4.5: 40.4 (#155)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-4.5
LMArena Longer Query12341406
Fiction.LiveBench—63.9%

Writing & Preference GPT-4.5 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), GPT-4.5: 56.9 (#134)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-4.5
LMArena Text12291417
LMArena Creative Writing11971394
LMArena Multi-Turn11991444
LiveBench Language25.9%61.5%
Short-Story Creative Writing—75.6%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1258
WildBench75%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Lite better than GPT-4.5?

GPT-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.2 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Amazon Nova Lite or GPT-4.5 better for coding?

GPT-4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.2 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and GPT-4.5 share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.5 has 42.

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