# Amazon Nova Lite vs o1-mini

> o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-o1-mini
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 24

## Summary

- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 1 category and o1-mini in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 19.3 to 8.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Reasoning: 36.7% for Amazon Nova Lite and 72.3% for o1-mini.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 34.0 |
| Rank | 265 | 235 |
| Context | 300K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270)
- o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | 48% |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1362 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 32.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 36.3% |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 89% |
| MBPP+ | — | 78.8% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Lite: —
- o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 10% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260)
- o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | 72.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1333 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | 57.9% |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | 57.8% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.8% |
| SimpleBench | — | 18.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 14% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 135.82 |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247)
- o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | 62% |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1358 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 46.9% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 89.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259)
- o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1316 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 62.4% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 18.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123)
- o1-mini: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232)
- o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1289 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1314 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1293 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1278 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1245 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1223 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1283 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1303 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255)
- o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | 65.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1304 |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217)
- o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1320 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237)
- o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1317 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1244 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1314 |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | 40.9% |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 64.9% |
| WildBench | 75% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than o1-mini?

o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or o1-mini better for coding?

o1-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and o1-mini share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.