# Amazon Nova Lite vs GPT-5 Nano

> GPT-5 Nano is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-gpt-5-nano
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 24

## Summary

- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 3 categories and GPT-5 Nano in 6 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where GPT-5 Nano leads 75.0 to 59.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Omni-MATH: 23.3% for Amazon Nova Lite and 54.6% for GPT-5 Nano.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.05 / $0.40 for GPT-5 Nano.
- GPT-5 Nano accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 300K.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-5 Nano |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 33.5 |
| Rank | 265 | 241 |
| Context | 300K | 400K |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | $0.05 |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | $0.40 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270)
- GPT-5 Nano: 33.6 (#254)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-5 Nano |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1351 |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | 718.67 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 34.8% |
| WeirdML | — | 38.1% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Lite: —
- GPT-5 Nano: 25.8 (#106)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-5 Nano |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 21.8% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 51.5% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260)
- GPT-5 Nano: 16.3 (#306)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-5 Nano |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1328 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 2.6% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 62.2% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 20.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 27% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 9% |
| DTBench | — | 62.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LMCA | — | 7.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 139.38 |
| ForecastBench | — | 59.1 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247)
- GPT-5 Nano: 29.4 (#241)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-5 Nano |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | 54.6% |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1317 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 20% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 2.4% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 81.1% |
| ProofBench | — | 12% |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 95.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 8.3% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 2.1% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259)
- GPT-5 Nano: 35.9 (#178)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-5 Nano |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | 77.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | 10.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | 67.9% |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1321 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 69.4% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 11.7% |
| MMLU | 77% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123)
- GPT-5 Nano: 31.3 (#108)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-5 Nano |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | 1159 |
| VPCT | — | 37.2% |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232)
- GPT-5 Nano: 45.3 (#172)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-5 Nano |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1313 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1356 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1327 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1226 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1269 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1296 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1360 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255)
- GPT-5 Nano: 75.0 (#79)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-5 Nano |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 77.6% | 93.2% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1306 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217)
- GPT-5 Nano: 31.3 (#281)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-5 Nano |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1312 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 44.4% |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237)
- GPT-5 Nano: 39.1 (#249)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | GPT-5 Nano |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1320 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1249 |
| WildBench | 75% | 80.6% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1311 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 705 |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than GPT-5 Nano?

GPT-5 Nano is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

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

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; GPT-5 Nano lists at $0.05 and $0.40.

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

GPT-5 Nano scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.6 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5 Nano does, with 400K tokens against 300K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and GPT-5 Nano share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5 Nano has 49.