Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Trinity Large Thinking
Trinity Large Thinking is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 3.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Trinity Large Thinking's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
Arcee AISummary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 1 category and Trinity Large Thinking in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Trinity Large Thinking leads 40.9 to 26.3.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $0.80 for Trinity Large Thinking.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 262K.
- Trinity Large Thinking has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Trinity Large Thinking | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Arcee AI |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 38.6 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2026-04-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | 262K |
| Max output | 10K | 80K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | $0.80 |
| Results tracked | 34 | 24 |
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Category by category
Coding Trinity Large Thinking leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Trinity Large Thinking: 34.1 (#244)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Trinity Large Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1381 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1238 |
| SciCode | — | 36.1% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
Reasoning Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Trinity Large Thinking: 16.9 (#298)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Trinity Large Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1350 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 16.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0.9% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 41.6% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 15.6% |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
Math Trinity Large Thinking leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Trinity Large Thinking: 37.6 (#149)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Trinity Large Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1366 |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
Knowledge Trinity Large Thinking leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Trinity Large Thinking: 40.9 (#113)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Trinity Large Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | 6.9% |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1360 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Trinity Large Thinking: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Trinity Large Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |
Multilingual Trinity Large Thinking leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Trinity Large Thinking: 46.2 (#160)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Trinity Large Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1325 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1373 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1374 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1356 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1311 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1306 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1337 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1357 |
Instruction Following Trinity Large Thinking leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Trinity Large Thinking: 70.5 (#162)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Trinity Large Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1334 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
Long Context Trinity Large Thinking leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Trinity Large Thinking: 41.3 (#144)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Trinity Large Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1355 |
Writing & Preference Trinity Large Thinking leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Trinity Large Thinking: 53.8 (#158)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Trinity Large Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1320 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1342 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Trinity Large Thinking?
Trinity Large Thinking is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 3.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Trinity Large Thinking's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Trinity Large Thinking?
Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Trinity Large Thinking lists at $0.25 and $0.80.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Trinity Large Thinking better for coding?
Trinity Large Thinking scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.1 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 Trinity Large Thinking share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Trinity Large Thinking has 24.