# Amazon Nova Lite vs Llama 4 Scout

> Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-llama-4-scout
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 24

## Summary

- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 5 categories and Llama 4 Scout in 4 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 32.5 to 20.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 60% for Amazon Nova Lite and 74.2% for Llama 4 Scout.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.10 / $0.30 for Llama 4 Scout.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 128K.
- Llama 4 Scout has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 27.7 |
| Rank | 265 | 330 |
| Context | 300K | 128K |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | $0.10 |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | $0.30 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270)
- Llama 4 Scout: 20.2 (#339)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1286 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 9.1% |
| SciCode | — | 17% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 43.1% |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Lite: —
- Llama 4 Scout: 24.6 (#119)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 28.1% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260)
- Llama 4 Scout: 9.1 (#345)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1266 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 36.9% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 0.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| DTBench | — | 57.9% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LMCA | — | 12% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 129.64 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.5 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247)
- Llama 4 Scout: 19.6 (#286)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | 37.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1287 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 7.8% |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 62.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259)
- Llama 4 Scout: 31.9 (#217)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | 74.2% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | 7.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | 50.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1235 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 51.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123)
- Llama 4 Scout: 32.2 (#102)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | 1118 |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 34.2% |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232)
- Llama 4 Scout: 41.0 (#212)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1252 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1255 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1282 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1272 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1206 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1207 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1263 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1278 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255)
- Llama 4 Scout: 65.8 (#217)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 77.6% | 81.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1248 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217)
- Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#294)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1265 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 36% |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237)
- Llama 4 Scout: 37.0 (#261)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1279 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1249 |
| WildBench | 75% | 78% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1280 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 783 |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Llama 4 Scout?

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Llama 4 Scout?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Llama 4 Scout lists at $0.10 and $0.30.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or Llama 4 Scout better for coding?

Amazon Nova Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.5 versus 20.2 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 4 Scout share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Scout has 43.