Noometry

Model comparison

Amazon Nova Lite vs Qwen3.5 35B-A3B

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 6.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3.5 35B-A3B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Lite Amazon

31.9

Rank #265 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

42.0

Rank #123 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads 47.8 to 26.3.
  • Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $2 for Qwen3.5 35B-A3B.
  • Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 262K.
  • Qwen3.5 35B-A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova LiteQwen3.5 35B-A3B
ProviderAmazonAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index31.942.0
Released2024-12-032026-02-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window300K262K
Max output10K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.06$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$0.24$2
Results tracked3428

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 33.8 (#251)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Coding12391410
LMArena WebDev—1254
SciCode—29.3%
LiveBench Coding27.5%—
ALE-Bench236.25—

Reasoning Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 24.6 (#161)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Hard Prompts12201400
CritPt—0.6%
Chess Puzzles—10%
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%—
DTBench—80%
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%—
LMCA—29.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—142.52
LiveBench36.4%—

Math Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 39.9 (#97)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Math12271404
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—56%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—70%
Omni-MATH23.3%—
LiveBench Math36.7%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 47.8 (#79)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3.5 35B-A3B
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%10.5%
LMArena Expert12011408
GPQA Diamond—83.5%
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%—
MMLU-Pro60%—
GPQA (HELM)39.7%—
MMLU77%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Vision990—

Multilingual Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 50.0 (#127)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Non-English12081378
LMArena Chinese12251457
LMArena French12371412
LMArena German12291367
LMArena Japanese11531325
LMArena Korean11531356
LMArena Russian12161376
LMArena Spanish12261392

Instruction Following Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 72.8 (#128)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following12051379
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%—
IFEval77.6%—

Long Context Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 42.4 (#127)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query12341389

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 57.9 (#124)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Text12291395
LMArena Creative Writing11971346
LMArena Multi-Turn11991390
WildBench75%—
LiveBench Language25.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Qwen3.5 35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 6.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3.5 35B-A3B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Qwen3.5 35B-A3B?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Qwen3.5 35B-A3B lists at $0.25 and $2.

Is Amazon Nova Lite or Qwen3.5 35B-A3B better for coding?

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B has 28.

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