Model Comparison

Comprehensive side-by-side analysis of model capabilities and performance

Amazon

Nova Lite

Amazon

Nova Lite is a multimodal language model developed by Amazon. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 70.7% across 27 benchmarks. It excels particularly in GSM8k (94.5%), ARC-C (92.4%), DocVQA (92.4%). It supports a 302K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 1 API provider. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. Released in 2024, it represents Amazon's latest advancement in AI technology.

OpenAI

o3-mini

OpenAI

o3-mini is a language model developed by OpenAI. The model shows competitive results across 26 benchmarks. It excels particularly in COLLIE (98.7%), MATH (97.9%), IFEval (93.9%). It supports a 300K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 2 API providers. Released in 2025, it represents OpenAI's latest advancement in AI technology.

Amazon

Nova Lite

Amazon

2024-11-20

OpenAI

o3-mini

OpenAI

2025-01-30

2 months newer

Pricing Comparison

Cost per million tokens (USD)

Amazon

Nova Lite

$5.20 cheaper
Input:$0.06
Output:$0.24
OpenAI

o3-mini

Input:$1.10
Output:$4.40

Performance Metrics

Context window and performance specifications

Amazon

Nova Lite

Larger context
Max Context:302.0K
OpenAI

o3-mini

Max Context:300.0K

Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

Amazon

Nova Lite

Average Score:71.4%
OpenAI

o3-mini

+17.6%
Average Score:89.0%

Performance comparison across key benchmark categories

Amazon

Nova Lite

code
87.5%
math
+17.5%
83.9%
general
+9.6%
64.9%
OpenAI

o3-mini

code
+6.3%
93.9%
math
66.4%
general
55.2%
Benchmark Scores - Detailed View
Side-by-side comparison of all benchmark scores
Knowledge Cutoff
Training data recency comparison

o3-mini

2023-09-30

More recent knowledge cutoff means awareness of newer technologies and frameworks

Provider Availability & Performance

Available providers and their performance metrics

Amazon

Nova Lite

1 providers

Bedrock

Throughput: 100 tok/s
Latency: 0.5ms
OpenAI

o3-mini

2 providers

Azure

Throughput: 115 tok/s
Latency: 5.2ms

OpenAI

Throughput: 115 tok/s
Latency: 5.2ms
Amazon

Nova Lite

Avg Score:71.4%
Providers:1
OpenAI

o3-mini

+17.6%
Avg Score:89.0%
Providers:2