# Amazon Nova Lite vs Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct

> Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-llama-3-3-70b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 26

## Summary

- They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 4 categories and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct in 4 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads 71.3 to 59.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Instruction Following: 54.1% for Amazon Nova Lite and 82.7% for Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.10 / $0.32 for Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 128K.
- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 31.4 | 30.3 |
| Rank | 262 | 283 |
| Context | 300K | 128K |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | $0.10 |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | $0.32 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.0 (#266)
- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.6 (#284)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | 36.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1268 |
| SciCode | — | 26% |
| WeirdML | — | 14.4% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 46.9% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 57.5% |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Lite: —
- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 25.6 (#100)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 31.9% |
| BALROG | — | 23% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 18.5 (#257)
- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 13.7 (#325)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | 50.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1257 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | 49.5% |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | 50.2% |
| SimpleBench | — | 19.9% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 59.5% |
| LMCA | — | 17.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 127.32 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.6 |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.8 (#243)
- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 14.3 (#292)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | 42.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1268 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 5.1% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 41.6% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.0 (#254)
- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.5 (#220)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | 4.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1225 |
| MMLU | 77% | 86.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.4% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 22.8% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.0 (#118)
- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.2 (#227)
- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 40.1 (#215)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1236 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1217 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1280 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1251 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1149 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1142 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1252 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1269 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.6 (#250)
- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 71.3 (#152)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | 82.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1242 |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#212)
- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 26.4 (#290)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1256 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 33.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.3 (#232)
- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 47.8 (#203)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1274 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1250 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1279 |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | 39.2% |
| WildBench | 75% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct?

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct lists at $0.10 and $0.32.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct better for coding?

Amazon Nova Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.0 versus 30.6 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 Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has 43.