Noometry

Model comparison

Amazon Nova Lite vs Qwen3 Max

Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.7 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 23× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3 Max's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Lite Amazon

31.9

Rank #265 Confirmed

Qwen3 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

43.7

Rank #87 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 Max in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3 Max leads 48.1 to 26.3.
  • Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $1.20 / $6 for Qwen3 Max.
  • Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 262K.

Side by side

Amazon Nova LiteQwen3 Max
ProviderAmazonAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index31.943.7
Released2024-12-032025-09-23
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window300K262K
Max output10K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.06$1.20
Output $ / M tokens$0.24$6
Results tracked3433

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 Max leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Qwen3 Max: 43.0 (#93)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3 Max
LMArena Coding12391456
ALE-Bench236.25370.45
LiveBench Coding27.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: —, Qwen3 Max: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3 Max
Vending-Bench 2—71.56

Reasoning Qwen3 Max leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Qwen3 Max: 22.6 (#190)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3 Max
LMArena Hard Prompts12201448
Kagi LLM Benchmark—72.5%
NYT Connections (extended)—30.1%
Chess Puzzles—4%
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—5%
DTBench—82.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%—
LMCA—28.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—142.38
LiveBench36.4%—

Math Qwen3 Max leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Qwen3 Max: 38.7 (#131)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3 Max
LMArena Math12271446
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—18.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—73.3%
Omni-MATH23.3%—
LiveBench Math36.7%—
MATH Level 5—97.1%

Knowledge Qwen3 Max leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Qwen3 Max: 48.1 (#78)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3 Max
LMArena Expert12011455
GPQA Diamond—72.6%
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%—
SimpleQA Verified—48.7%
MMLU-Pro60%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
GPQA (HELM)39.7%—
MMLU77%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Qwen3 Max: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3 Max
LMArena Vision990—

Multilingual Qwen3 Max leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Qwen3 Max: 53.7 (#62)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3 Max
LMArena Non-English12081429
LMArena Chinese12251478
LMArena French12371449
LMArena German12291463
LMArena Japanese11531397
LMArena Korean11531399
LMArena Russian12161428
LMArena Spanish12261462

Instruction Following Qwen3 Max leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Qwen3 Max: 74.8 (#87)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3 Max
LMArena Instruction Following12051419
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%—
IFEval77.6%—

Long Context Qwen3 Max leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Qwen3 Max: 41.6 (#134)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3 Max
LMArena Longer Query12341438
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%
CL-bench—14.5%

Writing & Preference Qwen3 Max leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Qwen3 Max: 62.4 (#76)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen3 Max
LMArena Text12291439
LMArena Creative Writing11971402
LMArena Multi-Turn11991446
WildBench75%—
LiveBench Language25.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Qwen3 Max?

Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.7 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 23× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3 Max's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Qwen3 Max?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Qwen3 Max lists at $1.20 and $6.

Is Amazon Nova Lite or Qwen3 Max better for coding?

Qwen3 Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.0 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 Max share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Max has 33.

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