Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Qwen3.6 35B-A3B
Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 5.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3.6 35B-A3B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads 51.3 to 26.3.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $1.49 for Qwen3.6 35B-A3B.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 262K.
- Qwen3.6 35B-A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3.6 35B-A3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 37.6 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2026-04-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | 262K |
| Max output | 10K | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | $1.49 |
| Results tracked | 34 | 14 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 37.2 (#196)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3.6 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 35.8% |
| WeirdML | — | 34.5% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: —, Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 22.1 (#134)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3.6 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 23% |
Reasoning Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 28.0 (#109)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3.6 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 41.6% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 26% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 22% |
| DTBench | — | 73.9% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LMCA | — | 29.7% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 44.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 143.93 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
Math Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 38.9 (#121)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3.6 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 20.4% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 86.7% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | — |
Knowledge Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 51.3 (#68)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3.6 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 84.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3.6 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3.6 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| 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), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3.6 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3.6 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3.6 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Qwen3.6 35B-A3B?
Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 5.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3.6 35B-A3B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Qwen3.6 35B-A3B?
Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Qwen3.6 35B-A3B lists at $0.25 and $1.49.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Qwen3.6 35B-A3B better for coding?
Qwen3.6 35B-A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.2 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 Qwen3.6 35B-A3B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B has 14.