Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Granite 3.1 8b Instruct
Amazon Nova Lite and Granite 3.1 8b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 32.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 4 categories and Granite 3.1 8b Instruct in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 38.0 to 30.9.
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 32.4 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | — |
| Results tracked | 34 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 34.5 (#233)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1186 |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: —, Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 24.1 (#120)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 27.1% |
Reasoning Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 22.1 (#207)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1145 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
Math Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 33.0 (#209)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1152 |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
Knowledge Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#220)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1142 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |
Multilingual Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.9 (#260)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1099 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1145 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1092 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | — |
| LMArena German | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | — |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 58.6 (#259)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1131 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
Long Context Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.2 (#241)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1162 |
Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.5 (#266)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1150 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1129 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1108 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Granite 3.1 8b Instruct?
Amazon Nova Lite and Granite 3.1 8b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 32.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Granite 3.1 8b Instruct better for coding?
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.5 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Granite 3.1 8b Instruct share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has 13.