Noometry

Model comparison

Amazon Nova Lite vs GPT-5.5 Instant

GPT-5.5 Instant is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.7 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Lite Amazon

31.9

Rank #265 Confirmed

GPT-5.5 Instant OpenAI

42.7

Rank #110 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 1 category and GPT-5.5 Instant in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-5.5 Instant leads 48.9 to 26.3.

Side by side

Amazon Nova LiteGPT-5.5 Instant
ProviderAmazonOpenAI
Noometry Index31.942.7
Released2024-12-032026-05-05
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window300K—
Max output10K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.06—
Output $ / M tokens$0.24—
Results tracked3427

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.5 Instant leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), GPT-5.5 Instant: 44.3 (#74)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-5.5 Instant
LMArena Coding12391433
SciCode—48.6%
LiveBench Coding27.5%—
ALE-Bench236.25—

Reasoning GPT-5.5 Instant leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), GPT-5.5 Instant: 24.9 (#155)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-5.5 Instant
LMArena Hard Prompts12201426
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—12%
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—142.52
LiveBench36.4%—

Math Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), GPT-5.5 Instant: 26.5 (#259)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-5.5 Instant
LMArena Math12271420
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—26.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4—2.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—68.1%
Omni-MATH23.3%—
LiveBench Math36.7%—

Knowledge GPT-5.5 Instant leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), GPT-5.5 Instant: 48.9 (#74)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-5.5 Instant
LMArena Expert12011409
GPQA Diamond—82.5%
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%—
MMLU-Pro60%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
GPQA (HELM)39.7%—
MMLU77%—

Multimodal GPT-5.5 Instant leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), GPT-5.5 Instant: 40.0 (#52)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-5.5 Instant
LMArena Vision9901250
LMArena Document—1403

Multilingual GPT-5.5 Instant leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), GPT-5.5 Instant: 52.8 (#80)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-5.5 Instant
LMArena Non-English12081417
LMArena Chinese12251456
LMArena French12371428
LMArena German12291411
LMArena Japanese11531408
LMArena Korean11531392
LMArena Russian12161431
LMArena Spanish12261429

Instruction Following GPT-5.5 Instant leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), GPT-5.5 Instant: 74.2 (#100)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-5.5 Instant
LMArena Instruction Following12051406
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%—
IFEval77.6%—

Long Context GPT-5.5 Instant leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), GPT-5.5 Instant: 43.4 (#96)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-5.5 Instant
LMArena Longer Query12341422

Writing & Preference GPT-5.5 Instant leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), GPT-5.5 Instant: 61.8 (#85)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGPT-5.5 Instant
LMArena Text12291419
LMArena Creative Writing11971419
LMArena Multi-Turn11991433
WildBench75%—
LiveBench Language25.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Lite better than GPT-5.5 Instant?

GPT-5.5 Instant is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.7 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Amazon Nova Lite or GPT-5.5 Instant better for coding?

GPT-5.5 Instant scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.3 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and GPT-5.5 Instant share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.5 Instant has 27.

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