# Amazon Nova Lite vs GPT-4o

> Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-gpt-4o
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 33

## Summary

- They share 33 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 3 categories and GPT-4o in 6 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 27.8 to 10.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Coding: 27.5% for Amazon Nova Lite and 51.4% for GPT-4o.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for GPT-4o.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 128K.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4o |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 28.6 |
| Rank | 265 | 324 |
| Context | 300K | 128K |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | $2.50 |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | $10 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270)
- GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4o |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | 51.4% |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1297 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 31% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 21.6% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 45.3% |
| GSO | — | 0% |
| WeirdML | — | 25.1% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 51.1% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 61.1% |
| CadEval | — | 26% |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 87.2% |
| MBPP+ | — | 72.2% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Lite: —
- GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4o |
|---|---|---|
| GDPval | — | 9.9% |
| TheAgentCompany | — | 8.6% |
| Cybench | — | 12.5% |
| BALROG | — | 32.3% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1006 |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 40.8% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260)
- GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4o |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | 55.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1281 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | 60.9% |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | 55.3% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| SimpleBench | — | 17.8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 4.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 13% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.8% |
| DTBench | — | 64.5% |
| LMCA | — | 16.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 128.97 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.7 |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247)
- GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4o |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | 29.3% |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | 49.5% |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1285 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 0.4% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 6.4% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 53.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259)
- GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4o |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | 2.7% |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | 71.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | 9.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | 52% |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1250 |
| MMLU | 77% | 88.1% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 49.2% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 26% |
| Confabulations | — | 15.3% |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123)
- GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4o |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | 1137 |
| Video-MME | — | 71.9% |
| GeoBench | — | 71% |
| VPCT | — | 40% |
| ScienceQA | — | 88.5% |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232)
- GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4o |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1283 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1277 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1304 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1282 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1257 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1234 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1286 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1292 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255)
- GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4o |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | 68.6% |
| IFEval | 77.6% | 81.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1278 |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217)
- GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4o |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1289 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237)
- GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-4o |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1300 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1292 |
| WildBench | 75% | 82.8% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1302 |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | 47.6% |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 81.8% |

## FAQ

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

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

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

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; GPT-4o lists at $2.50 and $10.

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

Amazon Nova Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.5 versus 24.8 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-4o share?

33 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4o has 72.