Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Granite 4.2 30b
Granite 4.2 30b is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 0 categories and Granite 4.2 30b in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 4.2 30b leads 39.1 to 26.3.
- Granite 4.2 30b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 4.2 30b | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 41.8 |
| 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 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Granite 4.2 30b leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Granite 4.2 30b: 41.0 (#126)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1396 |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
Reasoning Granite 4.2 30b leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Granite 4.2 30b: 27.8 (#112)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1374 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
Math Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Granite 4.2 30b: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | — |
Knowledge Granite 4.2 30b leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Granite 4.2 30b: 39.1 (#138)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1406 |
| 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 4.2 30b: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |
Multilingual Granite 4.2 30b leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Granite 4.2 30b: 47.3 (#151)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1340 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1414 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1343 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | — |
| LMArena German | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | — |
Instruction Following Granite 4.2 30b leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Granite 4.2 30b: 71.2 (#155)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1347 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
Long Context Granite 4.2 30b leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Granite 4.2 30b: 41.4 (#140)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1359 |
Writing & Preference Granite 4.2 30b leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Granite 4.2 30b: 53.8 (#156)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1361 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1288 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1339 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Granite 4.2 30b?
Granite 4.2 30b is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Granite 4.2 30b better for coding?
Granite 4.2 30b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.0 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Granite 4.2 30b share?
11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 30b has 11.