# Amazon Nova Lite vs Yi-34B

> Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-yi-34b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 7 categories and Yi-34B in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 26.0 to 7.5.
- Yi-34B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | 01.AI |
| Noometry Index | 31.4 | 27.4 |
| Rank | 262 | 325 |
| Context | 300K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.0 (#266)
- Yi-34B: 31.8 (#269)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1112 |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 18.5 (#257)
- Yi-34B: 20.3 (#222)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1104 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 71.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 117.28 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.8 (#243)
- Yi-34B: 19.8 (#277)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1114 |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 5.1% |
| GSM8K | — | 76% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.0 (#254)
- Yi-34B: 7.5 (#304)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1061 |
| MMLU | 77% | 76.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 14.7% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.0 (#118)
- Yi-34B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.2 (#227)
- Yi-34B: 29.9 (#259)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1079 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1175 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1080 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1042 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 993 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 959 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1050 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1070 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.6 (#250)
- Yi-34B: 56.4 (#269)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1091 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#212)
- Yi-34B: 33.2 (#259)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1094 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.3 (#232)
- Yi-34B: 34.3 (#268)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Yi-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1129 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1108 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1113 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Yi-34B?

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or Yi-34B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (32.0 vs 31.8); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Yi-34B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Yi-34B has 23.