# Amazon Nova Lite vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct

> Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 8.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 23

## Summary

- They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 58.2 to 42.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Omni-MATH: 23.3% for Amazon Nova Lite and 46.7% for Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $2 for Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 131K.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.4 | 42.5 |
| Rank | 262 | 100 |
| Context | 300K | 131K |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | $0.50 |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | $2 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.0 (#266)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.9 (#101)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1441 |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 18.5 (#257)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 30.1 (#79)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1428 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 66.7% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.8 (#243)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 36.3 (#118)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | 46.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1440 |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.0 (#254)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.3 (#102)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | 78.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | 9.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | 63% |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1416 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.0 (#118)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.2 (#227)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.3 (#88)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1407 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1461 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1415 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1416 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1398 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1366 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1403 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1436 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.6 (#250)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 71.0 (#154)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 77.6% | 81% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1388 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#212)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#218)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1403 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 55.6% |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.3 (#232)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.2 (#116)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1417 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1333 |
| WildBench | 75% | 80.7% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1415 |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 8.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct lists at $0.50 and $2.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 32.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 131K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.