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Nova Lite 1.0 vs GPT-5 Nano

GPT-5 Nano leads Nova Lite 1.0 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 13.0 to 6.7, and Nova Lite 1.0 costs 1.7x less per output token ($0.24 vs $0.40 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 39 benchmarks have a result for both.

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Nova Lite 1.0Amazon
Coding
No data
Overall
No data
Output $/M
$0.24
0
GPT-5 NanoOpenAI
Coding
No data
Overall
35.6
Output $/M
$0.40
39
vs boards won of 39 shared

Nova Lite 1.0 or GPT-5 Nano: which to pick

Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.

Pick Nova Lite 1.0 for output tokens 1.7x cheaper ($0.24 vs $0.40 per million) and work measured by LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) or Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run), where it leads.

Model ANova Lite 1.0AmazonNot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved taskModel BGPT-5 NanoOpenAINot benchmarkedNo coding benchmark$0.109 per solved task
Shared results
39
Nova Lite 1.0 only
2
GPT-5 Nano only
48
Like-for-like categories
7 of 9

Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

At a glance

Coding index
Nova Lite 1.0 not benchmarked, GPT-5 Nano not benchmarked.
Widest category
Math, 45.9 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
AA Math Index: Nova Lite 1.0 7.0 against GPT-5 Nano 83.7, 76.7 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Nova Lite 1.0 $0.24 against GPT-5 Nano $0.40 per million output tokens, 1.7x apart.
Context window
Nova Lite 1.0 takes 300K tokens, GPT-5 Nano 400K.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryNova Lite 1.0BarsGPT-5 NanoTies
Coding04
Intelligence01
Agentic work01
Reasoning05
Math04
Knowledge05
General019
All shared boards039
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index04
Coding benchmarks for Nova Lite 1.0 and GPT-5 Nano
BenchmarkNova Lite 1.0GPT-5 NanoLeader
SWE-bench VerifiedNot measured34.8%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)Not measured70.2%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run)16.7%78.9%GPT-5 Nano
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)0.8%17.4%GPT-5 Nano
Terminal-BenchNot measured21.8%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
WeirdMLNot measured38.1%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
LMArena Text: coding12391351GPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text: software and IT12411345GPT-5 Nano
Neither model has a result on the other 31 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
Intelligence benchmarks for Nova Lite 1.0 and GPT-5 Nano
BenchmarkNova Lite 1.0GPT-5 NanoLeader
AA Intelligence Index6.713.0GPT-5 Nano
Epoch Capabilities IndexNot measured139.2Only GPT-5 Nano measured
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
Agentic work benchmarks for Nova Lite 1.0 and GPT-5 Nano
BenchmarkNova Lite 1.0GPT-5 NanoLeader
τ²-Bench Telecom17.5%36.5%GPT-5 Nano
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL)Not measured51.4%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
Neither model has a result on the other 39 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index05
Reasoning benchmarks for Nova Lite 1.0 and GPT-5 Nano
BenchmarkNova Lite 1.0GPT-5 NanoLeader
GPQA DiamondNot measured63.4%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)Not measured70.9%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)43.3%67.6%GPT-5 Nano
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)4.3%9.5%GPT-5 Nano
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)Not measured69.4%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
ARC-AGINot measured20.7%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
ARC-AGI-2Not measured2.6%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
Chess puzzlesNot measured22.0%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
Mystery game puzzlesNot measured9.0%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
VPCTNot measured37.2%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts12201328GPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text: expert12011321GPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English12261338GPT-5 Nano
LMArena Vision: diagramsNot measured1141Only GPT-5 Nano measured
LMArena Vision: homeworkNot measured1157Only GPT-5 Nano measured
Kagi LLM BenchmarkNot measured62.2%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
Math benchmarks for Nova Lite 1.0 and GPT-5 Nano
BenchmarkNova Lite 1.0GPT-5 NanoLeader
AIMENot measured81.2%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
MATH 500 (Vals AI)Not measured93.8%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
MGSM (Vals AI)Not measured89.3%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
AA Math Index7.083.7GPT-5 Nano
AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)7.0%83.7%GPT-5 Nano
OTIS Mock AIMENot measured81.1%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3Not measured20.0%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
FrontierMath, tier 4Not measured2.4%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
ProofBenchNot measured12.0%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
MATH level 5Not measured95.2%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
LMArena Text: math12271317GPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text: mathematical work12351326GPT-5 Nano
Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index05
Knowledge benchmarks for Nova Lite 1.0 and GPT-5 Nano
BenchmarkNova Lite 1.0GPT-5 NanoLeader
MMLU ProNot measured76.1%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)Not measured50.1%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
CaseLaw (Vals AI)Not measured52.6%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)Not measured67.4%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)Not measured53.6%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
MedQA (Vals AI)Not measured93.3%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
MedCode (Vals AI)Not measured30.4%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run)59.0%78.0%GPT-5 Nano
SimpleQA VerifiedNot measured11.7%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
MMLU77.0%Not measuredOnly Nova Lite 1.0 measured
LMArena Text: science12321318GPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare12131335GPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text: legal and government12381298GPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text: business and finance12191311GPT-5 Nano
Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
Web design benchmarks for Nova Lite 1.0 and GPT-5 Nano
BenchmarkNova Lite 1.0GPT-5 NanoLeader
Design Arena: websitesNot measured1101Only GPT-5 Nano measured
Design Arena: UI componentsNot measured1064Only GPT-5 Nano measured
Design Arena: game devNot measured1044Only GPT-5 Nano measured
Design Arena: data vizNot measured1056Only GPT-5 Nano measured
Design Arena: 3DNot measured965Only GPT-5 Nano measured
Design Arena: all code categoriesNot measured1084Only GPT-5 Nano measured
Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index019
General benchmarks for Nova Lite 1.0 and GPT-5 Nano
BenchmarkNova Lite 1.0GPT-5 NanoLeader
SAGE (Vals AI)Not measured30.4%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
MedScribe (Vals AI)Not measured72.9%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
IFBench34.1%67.6%GPT-5 Nano
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)19.0%45.0%GPT-5 Nano
DTBenchNot measured62.7%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
LMCANot measured7.9%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
Fiction.LiveBenchNot measured44.4%Only GPT-5 Nano measured
LMArena Text12291320GPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text: instruction following12051306GPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text: creative writing11971249GPT-5 Nano
LMArena Vision9901159GPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text: English12431321GPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text: non-English12081313GPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text: Chinese12251356GPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text: German12291327GPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text: Japanese11531227GPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text: Korean11531269GPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text: French1238Not measuredOnly Nova Lite 1.0 measured
LMArena Text: Spanish12261360GPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text: Russian12161296GPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text: PolishNot measured1314Only GPT-5 Nano measured
LMArena Text: multi-turn11991311GPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text: longer queries12341312GPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text: writing and language12111283GPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text: entertainment and media11761268GPT-5 Nano
LMArena Vision: English9991170GPT-5 Nano
LMArena Vision: ChineseNot measured1176Only GPT-5 Nano measured
LMArena Vision: reading textNot measured1152Only GPT-5 Nano measured
LMArena Vision: humorNot measured1110Only GPT-5 Nano measured
Neither model has a result on the other 17 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Nova Lite 1.0 and GPT-5 Nano
BenchmarkNova Lite 1.0GPT-5 NanoLeader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

Nova Lite 1.0$0.0002Fits in one request
GPT-5 Nano$0.0003Fits in one request

Nova Lite 1.0 costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Nova Lite 1.0$0.0037Fits in one request
GPT-5 Nano$0.0037Fits in one request

GPT-5 Nano costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Nova Lite 1.0$0.014Fits in one request
GPT-5 Nano$0.014Fits in one request

GPT-5 Nano costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of Nova Lite 1.0 and GPT-5 Nano
SpecificationAmazon Nova Lite 1.0OpenAI GPT-5 Nano
MakerAmazonOpenAI
WeightsNo public weights listedNo public weights listed
ReleasedDecember 5, 2024August 7, 2025
Context window300K400K
Input $/Mtok$0.06$0.05
Output $/Mtok$0.24$0.40
Coding indexNot benchmarkedNot benchmarked
Independent measurements behind it00
Cost per solved taskNot computable$0.109
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Nova Lite 1.0 better than GPT-5 Nano for coding?

Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Nova Lite 1.0 for output tokens 1.7x cheaper ($0.24 vs $0.40 per million) and work measured by LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) or Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run), where it leads.

Which is cheaper, Nova Lite 1.0 or GPT-5 Nano?

Nova Lite 1.0 costs $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; GPT-5 Nano costs $0.05 and $0.40. Cost per solved task is known for GPT-5 Nano only.

Which has the bigger context window, Nova Lite 1.0 or GPT-5 Nano?

GPT-5 Nano, with 400K tokens against 300K.

How many benchmarks is the Nova Lite 1.0 vs GPT-5 Nano comparison based on?

39 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Nova Lite 1.0's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and GPT-5 Nano's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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