# Amazon Nova Lite vs Llama 3-8B

> Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-llama-3-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 3-8B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 27.8 to 8.8.
- Llama 3-8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 25.5 |
| Rank | 265 | 344 |
| Context | 300K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270)
- Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#289)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1152 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 31.9% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 36.9% |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 56.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 54.8% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260)
- Llama 3-8B: 14.3 (#326)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1133 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| DTBench | — | 43.9% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 57.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 116.45 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.6 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.7% |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247)
- Llama 3-8B: 8.8 (#323)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1151 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 1.9% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 6.1% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259)
- Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#308)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1113 |
| MMLU | 77% | 68.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 26.1% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 82.8% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 82.6% |
| TriviaQA | — | 67.7% |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123)
- Llama 3-8B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232)
- Llama 3-8B: 30.8 (#261)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1098 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1076 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1159 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1104 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 967 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1004 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1109 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1173 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255)
- Llama 3-8B: 58.4 (#260)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1127 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217)
- Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#251)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1128 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237)
- Llama 3-8B: 37.5 (#256)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1166 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1150 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1152 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Llama 3-8B?

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or Llama 3-8B better for coding?

Amazon Nova Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.5 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Llama 3-8B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-8B has 34.