# Amazon Nova Lite vs o1

> o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 250× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-o1
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 26

## Summary

- They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 0 categories and o1 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where o1 leads 41.5 to 26.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Reasoning: 36.7% for Amazon Nova Lite and 91.6% for o1.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $60 for o1.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 200K.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 31.4 | 40.6 |
| Rank | 262 | 140 |
| Context | 300K | 200K |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | $15 |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | $60 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.0 (#266)
- o1: 45.7 (#64)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | 69.7% |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1367 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 61.7% |
| WeirdML | — | 47.6% |
| CadEval | — | 56% |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 89% |
| MBPP+ | — | 80.2% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Lite: —
- o1: 24.3 (#111)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 10% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 51.1% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 18.5 (#257)
- o1: 27.5 (#103)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | 91.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1372 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | 65.5% |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | 75.7% |
| SimpleBench | — | 41.7% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 30.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 15% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 5.7% |
| DTBench | — | 74.7% |
| LMCA | — | 22.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 141.92 |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.8 (#243)
- o1: 34.9 (#150)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | 80.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1388 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 14.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 73.3% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 94.7% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 9.3% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.0 (#254)
- o1: 41.5 (#101)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | 8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1362 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 76.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 41.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 11.7% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.0 (#118)
- o1: 33.6 (#87)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | 1168 |
| GeoBench | — | 80% |
| VPCT | — | 37% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 41.4% |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.2 (#227)
- o1: 48.8 (#137)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1359 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1394 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1343 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1337 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1346 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1396 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1356 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1345 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.6 (#250)
- o1: 75.0 (#82)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | 81.5% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1368 |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#212)
- o1: 50.3 (#9)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1378 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.3 (#232)
- o1: 55.8 (#139)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1366 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1347 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1368 |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | 65.4% |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 70.2% |
| WildBench | 75% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than o1?

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 250× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or o1?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; o1 lists at $15 and $60.

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

o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 45.7 versus 32.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 200K.

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

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.