Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Qwen3 8B
Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 3.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3 8B'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 8B in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3 8B leads 36.1 to 26.3.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.18 / $0.70 for Qwen3 8B.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 131K.
- Qwen3 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 33.7 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | 131K |
| Max output | 10K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | $0.18 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 34 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3 8B leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: —, Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |
Reasoning Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | — |
| DTBench | — | 59.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 136.17 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
Math Qwen3 8B leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 56.1% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | — |
Knowledge Qwen3 8B leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | 4.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.8% |
| 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 8B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| 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 8B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| 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 8B: 37.9 (#210)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| 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 8B?
Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 3.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3 8B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Qwen3 8B?
Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Qwen3 8B lists at $0.18 and $0.70.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Qwen3 8B better for coding?
Qwen3 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 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 8B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.