Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Longcat Flash Chat
Longcat Flash Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 1 category and Longcat Flash Chat in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Longcat Flash Chat leads 61.0 to 42.1.
- Longcat Flash Chat has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Longcat Flash Chat | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Meituan |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 42.1 |
| 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 | 19 |
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Category by category
Coding Longcat Flash Chat leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#87)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1471 |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Longcat Flash Chat: 19.0 (#272)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1440 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 43.9% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 17.7% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
Math Longcat Flash Chat leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Longcat Flash Chat: 39.4 (#107)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1442 |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
Knowledge Longcat Flash Chat leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Longcat Flash Chat: 40.6 (#116)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1454 |
| 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), Longcat Flash Chat: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |
Multilingual Longcat Flash Chat leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Longcat Flash Chat: 51.9 (#101)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1404 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1465 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1456 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1408 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1373 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1371 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1395 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1445 |
Instruction Following Longcat Flash Chat leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Longcat Flash Chat: 74.4 (#96)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1411 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
Long Context Longcat Flash Chat leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#93)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1425 |
Writing & Preference Longcat Flash Chat leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Longcat Flash Chat: 61.0 (#91)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Longcat Flash Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1427 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1388 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1418 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Longcat Flash Chat?
Longcat Flash Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Longcat Flash Chat better for coding?
Longcat Flash Chat scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Longcat Flash Chat share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Longcat Flash Chat has 19.