# Amazon Nova Lite vs Claude Opus 4

> Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 286× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-claude-opus-4
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 25

## Summary

- They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 0 categories and Claude Opus 4 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4 leads 61.2 to 42.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Omni-MATH: 23.3% for Amazon Nova Lite and 61.6% for Claude Opus 4.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $75 for Claude Opus 4.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 200K.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Opus 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Anthropic |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 43.1 |
| Rank | 265 | 100 |
| Context | 300K | 200K |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | $15 |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | $75 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270)
- Claude Opus 4: 47.2 (#62)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Opus 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1442 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 70.7% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 67.6% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 72% |
| GSO | — | 6.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.33 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Lite: —
- Claude Opus 4: 34.8 (#42)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Opus 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 38% |
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 46.8% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1127 |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 63.9% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260)
- Claude Opus 4: 27.3 (#121)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Opus 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1399 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 8.6% |
| SimpleBench | — | 58.8% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 74.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 35.7% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 5.6% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| DTBench | — | 81.6% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LMCA | — | 37.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 142.67 |
| ForecastBench | — | 61.1 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247)
- Claude Opus 4: 42.0 (#86)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Opus 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | 61.6% |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1390 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 64.4% |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 85% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 4.5% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 4.2% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259)
- Claude Opus 4: 44.0 (#88)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Opus 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | 10.7% |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | 87.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | 12% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | 70.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1386 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 76.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 15.9% |
| MMLU | 77% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123)
- Claude Opus 4: 31.5 (#106)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Opus 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | 1192 |
| GeoBench | — | 49% |
| VPCT | — | 38% |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232)
- Claude Opus 4: 48.8 (#138)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Opus 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1362 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1386 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1372 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1391 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1331 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1321 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1392 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1389 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255)
- Claude Opus 4: 77.1 (#28)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Opus 4 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 77.6% | 91.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1406 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217)
- Claude Opus 4: 39.6 (#172)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Opus 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1422 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 61.1% |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237)
- Claude Opus 4: 61.2 (#89)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Opus 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1377 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1387 |
| WildBench | 75% | 85.2% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1396 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 83.6% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1580 |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Claude Opus 4?

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 286× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Claude Opus 4?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4 lists at $15 and $75.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or Claude Opus 4 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.2 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 200K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Claude Opus 4 share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Claude Opus 4 has 56.