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Model comparison

Amazon Nova Lite vs Grok 4

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Lite Amazon

31.9

Rank #265 Confirmed

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 4 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 4 leads 53.8 to 26.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Omni-MATH: 23.3% for Amazon Nova Lite and 60.3% for Grok 4.

Side by side

Amazon Nova LiteGrok 4
ProviderAmazonxAI
Noometry Index31.948.1
Released2024-12-032025-07-09
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window300K—
Max output10K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.06—
Output $ / M tokens$0.24—
Results tracked3448

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Grok 4: 50.3 (#46)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGrok 4
LMArena Coding12391408
Aider Polyglot—79.6%
WeirdML—45.7%
LiveBench Coding27.5%—
ALE-Bench236.25—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: —, Grok 4: 32.3 (#68)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGrok 4
Terminal-Bench—27.2%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—63%
GDPval—21.1%
Cybench—43%
DeepResearch Bench—47.3%
BALROG—43.6%
LMArena Search—1142
METR Time Horizons—66.6%

Reasoning Grok 4 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Grok 4: 36.7 (#65)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGrok 4
LMArena Hard Prompts12201409
ARC-AGI-2—16%
SimpleBench—60.5%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—73.6%
ARC-AGI-1—66.7%
Chess Puzzles—28%
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.44
ForecastBench—60.9
LiveBench36.4%—

Math Grok 4 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Grok 4: 48.4 (#64)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGrok 4
Omni-MATH23.3%60.3%
LMArena Math12271422
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—84%
LiveBench Math36.7%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—19.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Grok 4: 53.8 (#55)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGrok 4
MMLU-Pro60%85.1%
GPQA (HELM)39.7%72.7%
LMArena Expert12011415
GPQA Diamond—87%
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%—
Confabulations—12.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
MMLU77%—

Multimodal Grok 4 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Grok 4: 33.7 (#94)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGrok 4
LMArena Vision9901210
GeoBench—45%

Multilingual Grok 4 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Grok 4: 51.8 (#103)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGrok 4
LMArena Non-English12081403
LMArena Chinese12251427
LMArena French12371418
LMArena German12291429
LMArena Japanese11531394
LMArena Korean11531377
LMArena Russian12161410
LMArena Spanish12261420

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Grok 4: 79.2 (#5)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGrok 4
IFEval77.6%94.9%
LMArena Instruction Following12051387
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%—

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Grok 4: 63.1 (#4)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGrok 4
LMArena Longer Query12341409
Fiction.LiveBench—94.4%

Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Grok 4: 58.5 (#116)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteGrok 4
LMArena Text12291411
LMArena Creative Writing11971397
WildBench75%79.7%
LMArena Multi-Turn11991416
Short-Story Creative Writing—76.9%
LiveBench Language25.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Grok 4?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Amazon Nova Lite or Grok 4 better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Grok 4 share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4 has 48.

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