Noometry

Model comparison

Amazon Nova Lite vs Llama 3-8B

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Lite Amazon

31.9

Rank #265 Confirmed

Llama 3-8B Meta

25.5

Rank #344 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 3-8B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 27.8 to 8.8.
  • Llama 3-8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova LiteLlama 3-8B
ProviderAmazonMeta
Noometry Index31.925.5
Released2024-12-032024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window300K—
Max output10K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.06—
Output $ / M tokens$0.24—
Results tracked3434

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Category by category

Coding Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#289)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3-8B
LMArena Coding12391152
BigCodeBench Instruct—31.9%
LiveBench Coding27.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete—36.9%
ALE-Bench236.25—
HumanEval+—56.7%
MBPP+—54.8%

Reasoning Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Llama 3-8B: 14.3 (#326)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3-8B
LMArena Hard Prompts12201133
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%—
DTBench—43.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%—
Adversarial NLI—57.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—116.45
ForecastBench—58.6
LiveBench36.4%—
WinoGrande—75.7%

Math Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Llama 3-8B: 8.8 (#323)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3-8B
LMArena Math12271151
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—1.9%
Omni-MATH23.3%—
LiveBench Math36.7%—
MATH Level 5—6.1%

Knowledge Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#308)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3-8B
LMArena Expert12011113
MMLU77%68.8%
GPQA Diamond—26.1%
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%—
MMLU-Pro60%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
GPQA (HELM)39.7%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—82.8%
OpenBookQA—82.6%
TriviaQA—67.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Llama 3-8B: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3-8B
LMArena Vision990—

Multilingual Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Llama 3-8B: 30.8 (#261)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3-8B
LMArena Non-English12081098
LMArena Chinese12251076
LMArena French12371159
LMArena German12291104
LMArena Japanese1153967
LMArena Korean11531004
LMArena Russian12161109
LMArena Spanish12261173

Instruction Following Too close to call

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Llama 3-8B: 58.4 (#260)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3-8B
LMArena Instruction Following12051127
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%—
IFEval77.6%—

Long Context Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#251)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3-8B
LMArena Longer Query12341128

Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Llama 3-8B: 37.5 (#256)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 3-8B
LMArena Text12291166
LMArena Creative Writing11971150
LMArena Multi-Turn11991152
WildBench75%—
LiveBench Language25.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Llama 3-8B?

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Amazon Nova Lite or Llama 3-8B better for coding?

Amazon Nova Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.5 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Llama 3-8B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-8B has 34.

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