# Amazon Nova Lite vs GPT-4.5

> GPT-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.2 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-gpt-4-5
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 25

## Summary

- They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 1 category and GPT-4.5 in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4.5 leads 56.9 to 42.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Coding: 27.5% for Amazon Nova Lite and 75.2% for GPT-4.5.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 37.2 |
| Rank | 265 | 208 |
| Context | 300K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270)
- GPT-4.5: 42.2 (#109)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | 75.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1396 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 44.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 39.4% |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Lite: —
- GPT-4.5: 27.9 (#97)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 17.5% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260)
- GPT-4.5: 13.9 (#330)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | 71.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1403 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | 64.3% |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | 69% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.8% |
| SimpleBench | — | 34.5% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 10.3% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 3.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 136.74 |
| ForecastBench | — | 61.7 |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247)
- GPT-4.5: 32.6 (#211)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | 69.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1412 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 37.8% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 78.6% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259)
- GPT-4.5: 32.5 (#211)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | 5.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1394 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 68.7% |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 13.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123)
- GPT-4.5: 37.6 (#71)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | 1195 |
| VPCT | — | 45% |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232)
- GPT-4.5: 52.5 (#83)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1413 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1421 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1418 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1457 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1416 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1392 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1419 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255)
- GPT-4.5: 72.6 (#134)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | 72.3% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1404 |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217)
- GPT-4.5: 40.4 (#155)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1406 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 63.9% |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237)
- GPT-4.5: 56.9 (#134)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1417 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1394 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1444 |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | 61.5% |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 75.6% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1258 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than GPT-4.5?

GPT-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.2 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or GPT-4.5 better for coding?

GPT-4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.2 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and GPT-4.5 share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.5 has 42.