# Amazon Nova Lite vs GPT-5.6 Terra

> GPT-5.6 Terra is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.1 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 43× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.6 Terra's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-gpt-5-6-terra
- 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 GPT-5.6 Terra in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.6 Terra leads 81.5 to 25.8.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $12 for GPT-5.6 Terra.
- GPT-5.6 Terra accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 300K.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 31.4 | 59.1 |
| Rank | 262 | 15 |
| Context | 300K | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | $2 |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | $12 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.0 (#266)
- GPT-5.6 Terra: 57.1 (#16)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1484 |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | 1,951 |
| DeepSWE | — | 69.6% |
| FrontierCode | — | 41.3% |
| CursorBench | — | 41.3% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1520 |
| SciCode | — | 55% |
| WeirdML | — | 78.3% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Lite: —
- GPT-5.6 Terra: 40.2 (#23)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 58.2% |
| BALROG | — | 53.2% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 24.7% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 7,343 |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 18.5 (#257)
- GPT-5.6 Terra: 60.6 (#19)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1467 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 83.9% |
| SimpleBench | — | 48.9% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 51.3% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 78.4% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 96.5% |
| CritPt | — | 30% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 54% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 35% |
| DTBench | — | 93.3% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LMCA | — | 55% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 83.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 159.31 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.8 (#243)
- GPT-5.6 Terra: 81.5 (#10)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1463 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 86% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 70.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 99.7% |
| ProofBench | — | 74% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.0 (#254)
- GPT-5.6 Terra: 61.3 (#27)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1492 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 93.3% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 43.2% |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.0 (#118)
- GPT-5.6 Terra: 47.5 (#10)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | 1271 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 30.8% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 54.2% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1472 |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.2 (#227)
- GPT-5.6 Terra: 54.5 (#42)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1439 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1514 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1476 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1462 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1446 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1420 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1450 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1455 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.6 (#250)
- GPT-5.6 Terra: 76.6 (#38)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1453 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#212)
- GPT-5.6 Terra: 44.4 (#64)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1452 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.3 (#232)
- GPT-5.6 Terra: 70.4 (#21)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1446 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1411 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1451 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1855 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1234 |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than GPT-5.6 Terra?

GPT-5.6 Terra is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.1 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 43× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.6 Terra's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or GPT-5.6 Terra?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; GPT-5.6 Terra lists at $2 and $12.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or GPT-5.6 Terra better for coding?

GPT-5.6 Terra scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.1 versus 32.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.6 Terra does, with 1.05M tokens against 300K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and GPT-5.6 Terra share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.6 Terra has 52.