amazon.nova-lite-v1:0: benchmark scores, price and ranking

amazon.nova-lite-v1:0 from Amazon ranks #559 of 743 LLMs on the LLMs Tiger aggregate benchmark score (45.7), based on 2 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.

Organisation: Amazon
Type: Frontier model
Open weights: No
Released: 2024-12-03 (source: epoch)
Context window: 300,000 tokens
Cheapest API price: $0.060 in / $0.240 out per million tokens (via bedrock, observed 2026-10-13T20:47Z)
Aggregate rank: #559 of 743 (score 45.7)

Across the 2 benchmarks where at least ten models are scored, amazon.nova-lite-v1:0 is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 0.

Its cheapest listed input price, $0.060 per million tokens, is lower than that of 89% of the 427 models with a listed price.

amazon.nova-lite-v1:0 benchmark results

amazon.nova-lite-v1:0 benchmark scores, ranked against all models measured on each benchmark
Benchmark	Score	Rank	Source	Captured
ALE-Bench	236	#74 of 79	Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub	2026-10-13
Humanity's Last Exam	3.6%	#26 of 27	Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub	2026-10-13

About amazon.nova-lite-v1:0

amazon.nova-lite-v1:0 is a frontier model from Amazon. It was released on 2024-12-03, according to Epoch AI. It accepts up to 300,000 tokens of input at once. The cheapest API listing we track charges $0.060 per million input tokens and $0.240 per million output tokens, through bedrock. We hold 2 benchmark results for it across 2 areas, and none is in the top tenth of its board.

Where amazon.nova-lite-v1:0 stands

On our aggregate score, amazon.nova-lite-v1:0 is #559 of 743 ranked models, in the lower half. Its score is 45.7; the scale is centred on 50, so it sits 4.3 points below the typical model. That beats 25% of the ranked field. Among the 3 ranked Amazon models it is #2. The next one up is amazon.nova-pro-v1:0 at 46.5. The next one down is Nova 2.0 Pro Preview (unknown) at 44.9.

amazon.nova-lite-v1:0, benchmark by benchmark

ALE-Bench is a weak spot. amazon.nova-lite-v1:0 scores 236, #74 of 79, behind 92% of the models measured. The leader, GPT-6 Astra (max), reaches 2,951. It covers AtCoder heuristic-optimisation contests (performance rating). The board median is 764, so amazon.nova-lite-v1:0 is 528 points below it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

Humanity's Last Exam is a weak spot. amazon.nova-lite-v1:0 scores 3.6%, #26 of 27, behind 93% of the models measured. The leader, Muse Spark, reaches 40.6%. It covers expert-level questions across domains. The board median is 10.7%, so amazon.nova-lite-v1:0 is 7.1 points below it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

Strengths and weaknesses

amazon.nova-lite-v1:0 has too few results on boards with ten or more models to say where it is strong or weak. Treat any single score as a data point, not a verdict.

Price and value

The median input price across the 427 priced models is $0.500 per million tokens, so amazon.nova-lite-v1:0 costs less than the typical listing. Models that score within 1.5 points or better and cost less: Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct ($0.010, 49.5), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (high) ($0.010, 48.9), Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct ($0.010, 46.5). Similar scores cost more on Qwen3.5 Flash ($0.065) and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B ($0.070).

Release history

The next one was amazon.nova-pro-v1:0 on 2024-12-03, at 46.5.

Reading these numbers

The 2 scores on this page come from 1 source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub (2). No official leaderboard supplied any of them, so treat them as third-party measurements. With 2 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.