Noometry

Model comparison

Amazon Nova Lite vs Qwen3.5-9B

Qwen3.5-9B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.8 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

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Amazon Nova Lite Amazon

31.9

Rank #265 Confirmed

Qwen3.5-9B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.8

Rank #236 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5-9B leads 46.0 to 26.3.
  • Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.10 / $0.15 for Qwen3.5-9B.
  • Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 262K.
  • Qwen3.5-9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova LiteQwen3.5-9B
ProviderAmazonAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index31.933.8
Released2024-12-032026-02-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window300K262K
Max output10K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.06$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$0.24$0.15
Results tracked3410

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5-9B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Qwen3.5-9B: 35.9 (#217)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3.5-9B
SciCode—27.5%
LiveBench Coding27.5%—
LMArena Coding1239—
ALE-Bench236.25—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 14.5 (#151)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3.5-9B
Terminal-Bench—9.2%

Reasoning Qwen3.5-9B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Qwen3.5-9B: 23.1 (#182)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3.5-9B
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—12%
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1220—
DTBench—71.2%
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%—
LMCA—24.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—139.46
LiveBench36.4%—

Math Qwen3.5-9B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Qwen3.5-9B: 34.8 (#192)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3.5-9B
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—48.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—61.7%
Omni-MATH23.3%—
LiveBench Math36.7%—
LMArena Math1227—

Knowledge Qwen3.5-9B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Qwen3.5-9B: 46.0 (#84)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3.5-9B
GPQA Diamond—79%
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%—
MMLU-Pro60%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
GPQA (HELM)39.7%—
LMArena Expert1201—
MMLU77%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Vision990—

Multilingual Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Non-English1208—
LMArena Chinese1225—
LMArena French1237—
LMArena German1229—
LMArena Japanese1153—
LMArena Korean1153—
LMArena Russian1216—
LMArena Spanish1226—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3.5-9B
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%—
IFEval77.6%—
LMArena Instruction Following1205—

Long Context Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Longer Query1234—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Text1229—
LMArena Creative Writing1197—
WildBench75%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1199—
LiveBench Language25.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Qwen3.5-9B?

Qwen3.5-9B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.8 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Qwen3.5-9B?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Qwen3.5-9B lists at $0.10 and $0.15.

Is Amazon Nova Lite or Qwen3.5-9B better for coding?

Qwen3.5-9B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 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 Qwen3.5-9B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-9B has 10.

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