Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Qwen3-4B
Amazon Nova Lite and Qwen3-4B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 31.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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 Qwen3-4B in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3-4B leads 33.0 to 26.3.
- Qwen3-4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3-4B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 31.9 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2025-04-29 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | — |
| Results tracked | 34 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: —, Qwen3-4B: 27.6 (#100)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 35.7% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Qwen3-4B: 19.2 (#268)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
Math Qwen3-4B leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Qwen3-4B: 29.7 (#240)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 38.5% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 52.2% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | — |
Knowledge Qwen3-4B leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#208)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | 5.7% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 52.3% |
| 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), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| 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), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Qwen3-4B?
Amazon Nova Lite and Qwen3-4B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 31.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Qwen3-4B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.