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Model comparison

Amazon Nova Lite vs Llama 3.1-70B

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Lite Amazon

31.9

Rank #265 Confirmed

Llama 3.1-70B Meta

29.6

Rank #308 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 3.1-70B in 4 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 27.8 to 13.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 60% for Amazon Nova Lite and 65.3% for Llama 3.1-70B.
  • Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $0.40 for Llama 3.1-70B.
  • Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 128K.
  • Llama 3.1-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova LiteLlama 3.1-70B
ProviderAmazonMeta
Noometry Index31.929.6
Released2024-12-032024-07-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window300K128K
Max output10K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.06$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$0.24$0.40
Results tracked3435

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Category by category

Coding Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Llama 3.1-70B: 30.3 (#296)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3.1-70B
LMArena Coding12391260
WeirdML—9%
BigCodeBench Instruct—46.1%
LiveBench Coding27.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete—54.8%
ALE-Bench236.25—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: —, Llama 3.1-70B: 25.1 (#112)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3.1-70B
TheAgentCompany—6.9%
BALROG—27.9%

Reasoning Llama 3.1-70B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Llama 3.1-70B: 21.6 (#220)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3.1-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts12201241
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%—
DTBench—60%
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%—
LMCA—14.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index—125.92
LiveBench36.4%—

Math Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Llama 3.1-70B: 13.5 (#304)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3.1-70B
Omni-MATH23.3%21%
LMArena Math12271252
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—3.6%
LiveBench Math36.7%—
MATH Level 5—36.7%

Knowledge Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Llama 3.1-70B: 24.2 (#269)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3.1-70B
MMLU-Pro60%65.3%
GPQA (HELM)39.7%42.6%
LMArena Expert12011209
MMLU77%80.1%
GPQA Diamond—44.2%
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Llama 3.1-70B: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3.1-70B
LMArena Vision990—

Multilingual Too close to call

Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Llama 3.1-70B: 38.8 (#225)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3.1-70B
LMArena Non-English12081219
LMArena Chinese12251215
LMArena French12371261
LMArena German12291222
LMArena Japanese11531132
LMArena Korean11531140
LMArena Russian12161234
LMArena Spanish12261253

Instruction Following Llama 3.1-70B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Llama 3.1-70B: 65.3 (#223)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3.1-70B
IFEval77.6%82.1%
LMArena Instruction Following12051231
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%—

Long Context Too close to call

Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Llama 3.1-70B: 37.6 (#214)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3.1-70B
LMArena Longer Query12341241

Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Llama 3.1-70B: 35.4 (#267)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3.1-70B
LMArena Text12291261
LMArena Creative Writing11971232
WildBench75%75.8%
LMArena Multi-Turn11991256
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—784
LiveBench Language25.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Llama 3.1-70B?

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Llama 3.1-70B?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Llama 3.1-70B lists at $0.40 and $0.40.

Is Amazon Nova Lite or Llama 3.1-70B better for coding?

Amazon Nova Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.5 versus 30.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Llama 3.1-70B share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-70B has 35.

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