# Amazon Nova Lite vs Command A

> Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 42× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command A's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-command-a
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 2 categories and Command A in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Command A leads 37.1 to 26.3.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command A.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 256K.
- Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Cohere |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 36.5 |
| Rank | 265 | 215 |
| Context | 300K | 256K |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | $2.50 |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | $10 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270)
- Command A: 27.2 (#322)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1330 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 12% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Lite: —
- Command A: 35.9 (#40)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 57.1% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260)
- Command A: 18.3 (#283)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1326 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 28.8% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| DTBench | — | 61.3% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LMCA | — | 10.3% |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247)
- Command A: 36.2 (#171)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1300 |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259)
- Command A: 37.1 (#159)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | 9.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1295 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123)
- Command A: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232)
- Command A: 45.3 (#170)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1313 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1327 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1351 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1341 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1285 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1285 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1314 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1347 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255)
- Command A: 69.1 (#177)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1309 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217)
- Command A: 40.6 (#151)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1334 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237)
- Command A: 47.6 (#208)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1331 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1319 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1339 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1145 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Command A?

Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 42× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command A's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Command A?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or Command A better for coding?

Amazon Nova Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.5 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 256K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Command A share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Command A has 24.