Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Qwen3 14B
Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 5.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3 14B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 14B in 4 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3 14B leads 39.3 to 26.3.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.35 / $1.40 for Qwen3 14B.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 131K.
- Qwen3 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 35.5 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | 131K |
| Max output | 10K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | $0.35 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | $1.40 |
| Results tracked | 34 | 12 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3 14B leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Qwen3 14B: 37.3 (#195)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 31.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: —, Qwen3 14B: 29.6 (#83)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 41% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Qwen3 14B: 18.5 (#280)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 49.1% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | — |
| DTBench | — | 64% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LMCA | — | 18.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 138.23 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
Math Qwen3 14B leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Qwen3 14B: 38.6 (#133)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 66.4% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | — |
Knowledge Qwen3 14B leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Qwen3 14B: 39.3 (#134)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | 5.4% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 63.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Qwen3 14B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Qwen3 14B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | — |
| LMArena French | 1237 | — |
| LMArena German | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Qwen3 14B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Qwen3 14B: 38.1 (#204)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.5% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Qwen3 14B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | — |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Qwen3 14B?
Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 5.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3 14B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Qwen3 14B?
Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Qwen3 14B lists at $0.35 and $1.40.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Qwen3 14B better for coding?
Qwen3 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.3 versus 32.5 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 Qwen3 14B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.