# Amazon Nova Lite vs GLM-5

> GLM-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.9 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 15× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-glm-5
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 19

## Summary

- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 0 categories and GLM-5 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where GLM-5 leads 52.2 to 26.0.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $1 / $3.20 for GLM-5.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 205K.
- GLM-5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Z.ai (Zhipu) |
| Noometry Index | 31.4 | 45.9 |
| Rank | 262 | 59 |
| Context | 300K | 205K |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | $1 |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | $3.20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.0 (#266)
- GLM-5: 49.0 (#47)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1461 |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | 765.62 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 72.1% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 72.8% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1434 |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | 69.7% |
| WeirdML | — | 48.2% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Lite: —
- GLM-5: 30.9 (#65)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 52.4% |
| τ²-bench Airline | — | 82.5% |
| τ²-bench Banking | — | 9.8% |
| τ²-bench Retail | — | 73.7% |
| τ²-bench Telecom | — | 86.8% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 4,432 |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 18.5 (#257)
- GLM-5: 27.6 (#100)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1451 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 4.9% |
| SimpleBench | — | 53.2% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 75% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 74.8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 44.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 10% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 145.84 |
| ForecastBench | — | 61 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.8 (#243)
- GLM-5: 44.8 (#66)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1440 |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 65.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 80% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 16.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 2.1% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.0 (#254)
- GLM-5: 52.2 (#59)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | 10.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1454 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 87.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.0 (#118)
- GLM-5: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.2 (#227)
- GLM-5: 53.9 (#57)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1430 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1511 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1455 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1445 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1416 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1421 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1436 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1452 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.6 (#250)
- GLM-5: 75.4 (#64)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1427 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#212)
- GLM-5: 44.6 (#58)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1446 |
| CL-bench | — | 18.7% |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.3 (#232)
- GLM-5: 66.2 (#38)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1446 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1438 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1456 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1601 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than GLM-5?

GLM-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.9 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 15× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or GLM-5?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; GLM-5 lists at $1 and $3.20.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or GLM-5 better for coding?

GLM-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.0 versus 32.0 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-5 share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and GLM-5 has 45.