# Amazon Nova Lite vs Claude 3 Sonnet

> Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-claude-3-sonnet
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 19

## Summary

- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 7 categories and Claude 3 Sonnet in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 27.8 to 10.7.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Anthropic |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 29.0 |
| Rank | 265 | 319 |
| Context | 300K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270)
- Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1223 |
| WeirdML | — | 10.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 42.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 53.8% |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 64% |
| MBPP+ | — | 69.3% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260)
- Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1197 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| DTBench | — | 53.6% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 120.7 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.1% |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247)
- Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1213 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.5% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 18.2% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259)
- Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1173 |
| MMLU | 77% | 75.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 40.6% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123)
- Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | 984 |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232)
- Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1205 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1189 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1229 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1204 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1131 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1128 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1227 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1204 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255)
- Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1199 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217)
- Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1211 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237)
- Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1218 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1186 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1227 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Claude 3 Sonnet?

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or Claude 3 Sonnet better for coding?

Amazon Nova Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.5 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Claude 3 Sonnet share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Claude 3 Sonnet has 30.