# Amazon Nova Pro vs Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

> Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-pro-vs-gemini-2-5-flash-lite
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 26

## Summary

- They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 1 category and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite in 9 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 56.8 to 43.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Omni-MATH: 24.2% for Amazon Nova Pro and 48% for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite.
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $0.80 / $3.20 for Amazon Nova Pro.
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 300K.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Pro | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Google |
| Noometry Index | 31.0 | 37.0 |
| Rank | 281 | 211 |
| Context | 300K | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | $0.80 | $0.10 |
| Output $/M | $3.20 | $0.40 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Pro: 35.1 (#229)
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1270 | 1373 |
| WeirdML | — | 35.2% |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.1% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 325.9 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Pro: 16.7 (#147)
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 25% | 36.9% |
| TheAgentCompany | 1.7% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Pro: 20.0 (#243)
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | 1377 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 123.8 | 133.94 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 40.5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 32.6% | — |
| DTBench | — | 62.8% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.3% | — |
| LMCA | — | 18.1% |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Pro: 28.5 (#243)
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 24.2% | 48% |
| LMArena Math | 1252 | 1373 |
| LiveBench Math | 38% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Pro: 27.4 (#250)
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 67.3% | 53.7% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | 3.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 44.6% | 30.9% |
| LMArena Expert | 1211 | 1373 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 30.1% | — |
| MMLU | 82% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Pro: 25.0 (#126)
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 980 | 1198 |
| VPCT | — | 30% |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Pro: 39.7 (#223)
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1234 | 1369 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1244 | 1404 |
| LMArena French | 1271 | 1388 |
| LMArena German | 1243 | 1389 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1200 | 1359 |
| LMArena Korean | 1203 | 1360 |
| LMArena Russian | 1240 | 1373 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1182 | 1396 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Pro: 64.9 (#226)
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 81.5% | 81% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1235 | 1367 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#205)
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1255 | 1373 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 47.2% |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Pro: 43.9 (#226)
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1259 | 1379 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1212 | 1367 |
| WildBench | 77.7% | 81.8% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1246 | 1366 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 60.5% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 37% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Pro better than Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro or Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Amazon Nova Pro lists at $0.80 and $3.20.

### Is Amazon Nova Pro or Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.5 versus 35.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 300K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33.