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Amazon Nova LitevsClaude Opus 4.8
Amazon Nova Lite and Claude Opus 4.8 do not yet share a public benchmark, so quality cannot be compared apples-to-apples. Amazon Nova Lite is 100x cheaper per token. Claude Opus 4.8 has the larger context window (1M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
0
no overlap yet
Cheaper per token
Amazon Nova Lite
100x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Claude Opus 4.8
1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
— · 100%
Amazon · Anthropic
Amazon Nova Lite
Amazon · released 2024-12-02
textvision
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic · released 2026-05-28
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
0 shared · 8 only Amazon Nova Lite · 16 only Claude Opus 4.8| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Opus 4.8 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 0 | ||||
| No public benchmark is reported for both models yet. | ||||
| Only Amazon Nova Lite reports · 8 | ||||
| MMLU | 80.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| ARC-C | 92.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| BBH | 82.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| DROP | 80.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| GPQA | 42% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| GSM8K | 94.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| IFEval | 89.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MATH | 73.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Claude Opus 4.8 reports · 16 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | not reported | 88.6% ↗ | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | not reported | 93.6% ↗ | — | — |
| AIME 2026 | not reported | 100% ↗matharena ⚠ | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | not reported | 49.8% ↗ | — | — |
| LMArena Elo | not reported | 1452.7 ↗ | — | — |
| BrowseComp | not reported | 84.3% ↗ | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 56.1% ↗epoch | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 80% ↗epoch | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | not reported | 57.9% ↗ | — | — |
| OSWorld-Verified | not reported | 83.4% ↗ | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 98.3% ↗epoch | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | not reported | 53% ↗epoch | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | not reported | 84.4% ↗ | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multimodal | not reported | 38.4% ↗ | — | — |
| SWE-Bench Pro | not reported | 69.2% ↗ | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | not reported | 74.6% ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Amazon Nova Lite minus Claude Opus 4.8 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Amazon Nova Lite | Claude Opus 4.8 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 300K tokens | 1M tokens | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Max output | 10K tokens | 128K tokens | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Input price / 1M | $0.06 ↗ | $5 ↗ | Amazon Nova Lite |
| Output price / 1M | $0.24 ↗ | $25 ↗ | Amazon Nova Lite |
| Cached input / 1M | — | $0.5 ↗ | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $0.3 | $30 | Amazon Nova Lite |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2024-12-02 | 2026-05-28 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 8 | 17 | — |
Reliability
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