Amazon Nova Lite 1.0
AmazonProprietary
Amazon Nova Lite 1.0 is a vision-language model from Amazon. It ranks 152 of 167 on LMArena’s overall vision board with 990±15 from 1,854 votes. License: Proprietary.
Key figures
- Developer
- Amazon
- License
- Proprietary
- First seen (our snapshots)
- 2026-10-26
No data: OCR, Diagrams, Homework, Captioning, Entity recognition, Creative writing, Humor, Chinese.
Who it suits
- Overall #152 of 167: lower half; consider it mainly for cost or deployment reasons.
- Proprietary; used through Amazon’s apps or API.
Neighbours on the overall board
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License | Δ vs this model |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 149 |  Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct Meta | 1000 | 8,682 | Llama 3.2 | +10 |
| 150 |  Hunyuan Standard Vision (2024-12-31) Tencent | 999 | 809 | Proprietary | +9 |
| 151 |  Aya Vision 32B Cohere | 996 | 847 | CC-BY-NC-4.0 | +6 |
| 152 | AAmazon Nova Lite 1.0 Amazon | 990 | 1,854 | Proprietary | |
| 153 |  Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct Alibaba | 990 | 5,766 | Apache 2.0 | +0 |
| 154 |  Claude 3 Sonnet (20240229) Anthropic | 984 | 12,314 | Proprietary | -6 |
| 155 | AAmazon Nova Pro 1.0 Amazon | 980 | 2,335 | Proprietary | -10 |
Alternatives · More from Amazon
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 155 | AAmazon Nova Pro 1.0 Amazon | 980 | 2,335 | Proprietary |
Alternatives · Top open-weight models
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 |  GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai | 1294 | 16,254 | MIT |
| 34 |  Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI | 1282 | 16,368 | Modified MIT |
| 38 |  DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20260910 (Max) DeepSeek | 1278 | 4,100 | MIT |
| 39 |  Gemma 4 31B Google | 1276 | 40,219 | Apache 2.0 |
| 44 | Qwen3.8-27B Alibaba | 1269 | 7,614 | Apache 2.0 |
How to read these scores
- If two scores differ by less than their ± intervals, the models are statistically close.
- Each category board is computed independently; do not compare scores across categories.
- Models with few votes move more; ranks of new entries may change.
FAQ
Where does Amazon Nova Lite 1.0 rank among vision models?
Overall rank 152 (990); English rank 154 (999) (LMArena, data as of Oct 26, 2026).
How good is Amazon Nova Lite 1.0 at OCR?
Amazon Nova Lite 1.0 is not on LMArena’s OCR board yet, so there is no score to cite.
Is Amazon Nova Lite 1.0 open-weight?
No. LMArena lists it as Proprietary; it is available through Amazon’s apps or API.
How far is Amazon Nova Lite 1.0 from #1?
#1 overall is Claude Fable 5 (High) (1325); Amazon Nova Lite 1.0 has 990, 335 points behind.
Sources
LMArena data published Oct 19, 2026.
Synced here Oct 26, 2026.
Price, context length and release date have no reliable public data here and are not shown; all figures come from snapshots, blanks are –.