Noometry

Model comparison

Amazon Nova Lite vs Llama 3.2 3B

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Lite Amazon

31.9

Rank #265 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 3B Meta

28.9

Rank #321 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 5 categories and Llama 3.2 3B in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 42.1 to 24.7.
  • Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.05 / $0.33 for Llama 3.2 3B.
  • Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 131K.
  • Llama 3.2 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova LiteLlama 3.2 3B
ProviderAmazonMeta
Noometry Index31.928.9
Released2024-12-032024-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window300K131K
Max output10K118K
Input $ / M tokens$0.06$0.05
Output $ / M tokens$0.24$0.33
Results tracked3418

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Category by category

Coding Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Llama 3.2 3B: 27.6 (#319)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Coding12391098
BigCodeBench Instruct—23.4%
LiveBench Coding27.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete—28.3%
ALE-Bench236.25—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: —, Llama 3.2 3B: 20.1 (#143)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3.2 3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—21.9%
BALROG—10.1%

Reasoning Llama 3.2 3B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Llama 3.2 3B: 21.0 (#228)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Hard Prompts12201095
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%—
LiveBench36.4%—

Math Llama 3.2 3B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Llama 3.2 3B: 32.4 (#214)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Math12271126
Omni-MATH23.3%—
LiveBench Math36.7%—

Knowledge Llama 3.2 3B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Llama 3.2 3B: 29.7 (#235)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Expert12011090
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%—
MMLU-Pro60%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
GPQA (HELM)39.7%—
MMLU77%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Llama 3.2 3B: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Vision990—

Multilingual Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Llama 3.2 3B: 26.2 (#281)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Non-English12081019
LMArena Chinese12251017
LMArena German12291056
LMArena Russian1216949
LMArena French1237—
LMArena Japanese1153—
LMArena Korean1153—
LMArena Spanish1226—

Instruction Following Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Llama 3.2 3B: 56.0 (#275)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Instruction Following12051089
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%—
IFEval77.6%—

Long Context Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Llama 3.2 3B: 33.4 (#261)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Longer Query12341100

Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Llama 3.2 3B: 24.7 (#307)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Text12291110
LMArena Creative Writing11971094
LMArena Multi-Turn11991105
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—595
WildBench75%—
LiveBench Language25.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Llama 3.2 3B?

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Llama 3.2 3B?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Llama 3.2 3B lists at $0.05 and $0.33.

Is Amazon Nova Lite or Llama 3.2 3B better for coding?

Amazon Nova Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.5 versus 27.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Llama 3.2 3B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 3B has 18.

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