# Amazon Nova Lite vs GPT-4 Turbo

> Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-gpt-4-turbo
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 19

## Summary

- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 3 categories and GPT-4 Turbo in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 27.8 to 9.0.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $10 / $30 for GPT-4 Turbo.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 128K.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 30.5 |
| Rank | 265 | 292 |
| Context | 300K | 128K |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | $10 |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | $30 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270)
- GPT-4 Turbo: 33.8 (#249)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1268 |
| WeirdML | — | 18% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 48.2% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 58.2% |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 86.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 73.3% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Lite: —
- GPT-4 Turbo: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| METR Time Horizons | — | 36.7% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260)
- GPT-4 Turbo: 15.3 (#317)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1251 |
| SimpleBench | — | 25.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 6% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| DTBench | — | 61.6% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LMCA | — | 9.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 127.25 |
| ForecastBench | — | 59.4 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247)
- GPT-4 Turbo: 9.0 (#322)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1272 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 0.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 6.7% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 46.7% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259)
- GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#268)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1223 |
| MMLU | 77% | 81.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 46.6% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 28.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123)
- GPT-4 Turbo: 30.6 (#110)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | 1090 |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232)
- GPT-4 Turbo: 40.5 (#216)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1245 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1242 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1276 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1259 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1194 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1187 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1259 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1260 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255)
- GPT-4 Turbo: 65.8 (#216)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1249 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217)
- GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#206)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1254 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237)
- GPT-4 Turbo: 47.7 (#206)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1272 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1269 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1267 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than GPT-4 Turbo?

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or GPT-4 Turbo?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; GPT-4 Turbo lists at $10 and $30.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or GPT-4 Turbo better for coding?

GPT-4 Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 32.5 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 GPT-4 Turbo share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4 Turbo has 36.