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Nova Lite Pro on SWE-bench Verified: score, rank and what it means

Nova Lite Pro scores 61.8 on SWE-bench Verified, placing it #286 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 57.5 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 81.7.

Score
61.8
0–100 scale
Rank
#286
of 600
Percentile
52th
within the index
Benchmark avg
57.5
all models
Leader
81.7
GPT-5.2 Pro
Gap to leader
19.9
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on SWE-bench Verified, with Nova Lite Pro highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.2 Pro 81.7
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 81.1
GPT-5.2 Max 80.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max 80.2
GPT-5.2 80.2
GPT-5.1 Pro 80.1
o4 Max 79.8
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 79.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 79.5
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 79.5

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
2 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
3 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
4 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $19.90 87.2
5 GPT-5.2 OpenAI 2000000 $19.71 88.0
6 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
7 o4 Max OpenAI 2000000 $19.51 86.2
8 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 400000 $19.48 87.7
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
10 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2

What this score means

On SWE-bench Verified, Nova Lite Pro sits at #286 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 81.7, so the gap to the top is 19.9 points. The median model in this index scores 61.0, which puts Nova Lite Pro above the midpoint.

Amazon models average 61.4 on this benchmark. Nova Lite Pro is 0.4 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Amazon model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 66.4. Nova Lite Pro is 4.6 points below that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 61.8 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.

Price context

At $9.69 per million input tokens, Nova Lite Pro is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on SWE-bench Verified. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Yi-Lightning Base 01.AI 16384 $3.31 72.7
Llama 3 Anyscale Chat Anyscale 65536 $3.67 74.6
Llama 3 Hyperbolic Chat Hyperbolic 200000 $3.64 75.1
Llama 3 Novita Novita AI 128000 $3.70 74.4
Nova Lite Pro Amazon 200000 $9.69 74.1
Reka Flash Pro Reka AI 200000 $10.82 75.2
Fusion Reasoning OpenRouter 65536 $8.59 72.2

Other benchmarks for Nova Lite Pro

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 76.3 297 51th
GPQA Diamond 67.3 326 46th
HumanEval 76.6 317 47th
MATH-500 78.8 242 60th
AIME 2025 69.6 266 56th
LiveCodeBench 68.6 215 64th
IFEval 83.3 238 60th
TruthfulQA 77.8 259 57th
HellaSwag 82.3 342 43th
MMMU 73.2 213 65th
Arena Elo 1378.7 277 54th

FAQ

What score does Nova Lite Pro get on SWE-bench Verified?

Nova Lite Pro scores 61.8 on SWE-bench Verified in this index. The benchmark average is 57.5 and the top score is 81.7.

How does Nova Lite Pro rank on SWE-bench Verified?

It ranks #286 of 600 models, in the 52nd percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 81.7.

Is Nova Lite Pro good at SWE-bench Verified?

Yes, relative to the index: it is above the median and inside the top half of scores. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the SWE-bench Verified score calculated?

SWE-bench Verified is a coding benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.

What does Nova Lite Pro cost?

Nova Lite Pro costs $9.69 per million input tokens and $46.58 per million output tokens.

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