# Amazon Nova Lite vs DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale

> DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 8.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-deepseek-v3-2-speciale
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in reasoning, where DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale leads 32.1 to 18.5.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.58 / $1.68 for DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 128K.
- DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | DeepSeek |
| Noometry Index | 31.4 | 39.1 |
| Rank | 262 | 159 |
| Context | 300K | 128K |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | $0.58 |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | $1.68 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.0 (#266)
- DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale: 39.9 (#136)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | — | 46.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 18.5 (#257)
- DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale: 32.1 (#65)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | — | 52.6% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.8 (#243)
- DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.0 (#254)
- DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.0 (#118)
- DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.2 (#227)
- DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | — |
| LMArena French | 1237 | — |
| LMArena German | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.6 (#250)
- DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#212)
- DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.3 (#232)
- DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale: 46.1 (#217)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1276 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale?

DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 8.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale lists at $0.58 and $1.68.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale better for coding?

DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.9 versus 32.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale has 3.