Amazon Nova Lite alternatives
Looking for an alternative to Amazon Nova Lite? Here are the 6 closest llm provider / model options for AI coding, each ranked by how well it replaces Amazon Nova Lite — with the concrete reason to switch.
Quick comparison
| Model | Input price | SWE-bench | Context window | Speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Nova Lite (you) | $0.06 | 24% | 300K | Fast |
| Amazon Nova Micro | $0.035 | 14% | 128K | Fast |
| Ministral 3 14B | $0.20 | 24% | 128K | Fast |
| Phi-4 | Free (self-hosted) | 28% | 16K | Fast |
| Gemma 4 31B | Free (self-hosted) | 32% | 256K | Standard |
| Amazon Nova Pro | $0.80 | 36% | 300K | Standard |
| Codestral | $0.20 | 38% | 256K | Fast |
The best Amazon Nova Lite alternatives
Ultra-low-cost AWS-native for simple coding, routing, high-throughput tasks
Why consider it instead:
- Cheaper — $0.035/1M input vs $0.06, ~1.7× less
Local coding assistant on laptop, edge deployments, quick completions
Why consider it instead:
- Built for: Local coding assistant on laptop, edge deployments, quick completions
Phi-4
Extremely small self-hosted coding model, edge devices, resource-constrained environments
Why consider it instead:
- Cheaper — $0/1M input vs $0.06
- Higher SWE-bench (28% vs 24%)
Frontier open-weights on workstation, agentic coding, reasoning, local multimodal tasks
Why consider it instead:
- Cheaper — $0/1M input vs $0.06
- Higher SWE-bench (32% vs 24%)
AWS-integrated coding, enterprise Bedrock deployments, multimodal tasks
Why consider it instead:
- Higher SWE-bench (36% vs 24%)
Specialized code completion and generation, FIM-aware coding, fast IDE completions
Why consider it instead:
- Higher SWE-bench (38% vs 24%)
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