# Amazon Nova Lite vs GLM-4.7

> GLM-4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 9.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-glm-4-7
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 19

## Summary

- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 0 categories and GLM-4.7 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where GLM-4.7 leads 47.0 to 26.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Vectara Hallucination Rate: 6.1% for Amazon Nova Lite and 11.7% for GLM-4.7.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.60 / $2.20 for GLM-4.7.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 205K.
- GLM-4.7 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | GLM-4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Z.ai (Zhipu) |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 42.0 |
| Rank | 265 | 124 |
| Context | 300K | 205K |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | $0.60 |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | $2.20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270)
- GLM-4.7: 44.0 (#79)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GLM-4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1454 |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | 399.48 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1435 |
| SciCode | — | 45.1% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Lite: —
- GLM-4.7: 26.5 (#103)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GLM-4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 33.4% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 2,377 |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260)
- GLM-4.7: 24.3 (#164)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GLM-4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1443 |
| SimpleBench | — | 47.7% |
| CritPt | — | 1.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 6% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 143.51 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247)
- GLM-4.7: 38.6 (#135)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GLM-4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1423 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 83.3% |
| ProofBench | — | 6% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 2.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 0% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259)
- GLM-4.7: 47.0 (#80)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GLM-4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | 11.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1424 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 83.3% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 32.2% |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123)
- GLM-4.7: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GLM-4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232)
- GLM-4.7: 52.8 (#79)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GLM-4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1417 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1495 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1432 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1424 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1439 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1399 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1423 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1434 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255)
- GLM-4.7: 74.4 (#95)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GLM-4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1411 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217)
- GLM-4.7: 42.8 (#116)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GLM-4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1432 |
| CL-bench | — | 15.9% |
| CL-bench Life | — | 10.9% |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237)
- GLM-4.7: 60.9 (#93)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GLM-4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1435 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1401 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1446 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1413 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than GLM-4.7?

GLM-4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 9.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or GLM-4.7?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; GLM-4.7 lists at $0.60 and $2.20.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or GLM-4.7 better for coding?

GLM-4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 205K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and GLM-4.7 share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.7 has 36.