# Amazon Nova Lite vs Gemma 2 27B

> Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-gemma-2-27b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 25

## Summary

- They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 4 categories and Gemma 2 27B in 4 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 25.8 to 10.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Data Analysis: 37.2% for Amazon Nova Lite and 47.9% for Gemma 2 27B.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.65 / $0.65 for Gemma 2 27B.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 8K.
- Gemma 2 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Google |
| Noometry Index | 31.4 | 29.2 |
| Rank | 262 | 302 |
| Context | 300K | 8K |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | $0.65 |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | $0.65 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.0 (#266)
- Gemma 2 27B: 33.5 (#243)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | 36% |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1211 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 42.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 52.5% |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 18.5 (#257)
- Gemma 2 27B: 14.8 (#313)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | 28.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1199 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | 47.9% |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | 38.2% |
| DTBench | — | 48% |
| LMCA | — | 7.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 122.06 |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.8 (#243)
- Gemma 2 27B: 10.0 (#306)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | 26.5% |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1212 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 1.4% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 27.9% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.0 (#254)
- Gemma 2 27B: 18.9 (#275)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1172 |
| MMLU | 77% | 75.7% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 36.5% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 27.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.0 (#118)
- Gemma 2 27B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.2 (#227)
- Gemma 2 27B: 38.8 (#221)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1217 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1221 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1246 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1209 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1175 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1174 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1234 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1228 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.6 (#250)
- Gemma 2 27B: 60.7 (#244)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | 58.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1206 |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#212)
- Gemma 2 27B: 37.3 (#213)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1231 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.3 (#232)
- Gemma 2 27B: 44.4 (#220)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1231 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1241 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1224 |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | 32.6% |
| WildBench | 75% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Gemma 2 27B?

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Gemma 2 27B?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Gemma 2 27B lists at $0.65 and $0.65.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or Gemma 2 27B better for coding?

Gemma 2 27B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.5 versus 32.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 8K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Gemma 2 27B share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 27B has 34.