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Atria Dawn Preview vs Nova Lite

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 7.6.

Shanghai AI Laboratory · Amazon · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the overall LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 7.6, ranking #10 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Atria Dawn Preview

  • overall performance matters — it scores 52.3 and ranks #10 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning and coding — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2026
  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

Choose Nova Lite

  • you want predictable pricing at $0.06/M input and $0.24/M output

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Atria Dawn Preview
Shanghai AI Laboratory
Nova Lite
Amazon
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
52.3
#10
7.6
#287
Reasoning
50.5
#12
7.1
#284
Coding
36.2
#22
5.6
#197
Agents
38.8
#10
4.9
#149
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
—
—
Input price
— / M
$0.06 / M
Output price
— / M
$0.24 / M
Context window
—
300,000

Individual benchmarks

12 reported for Atria Dawn Preview · 27 for Nova Lite

No common benchmarks found

Atria Dawn Preview and Nova Litedon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Nova Lite specifies input context (300,000 tokens). Only Nova Lite specifies output context (2,048 tokens).

Shanghai AI Laboratory
Atria Dawn Preview
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Amazon
Nova Lite
Input300,000 tokens
Output2,048 tokens
Thu Sep 17 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Nova Lite supports multimodal inputs, whereas Atria Dawn Preview does not.

Nova Lite can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Atria Dawn Preview

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Nova Lite

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Atria Dawn Preview is licensed under MIT, while Nova Lite uses a proprietary license.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Atria Dawn Preview

MIT

Open weights

Nova Lite

Proprietary

Closed source

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Atria Dawn Preview was released on 2026-09-11, while Nova Lite was released on 2024-11-20.

Atria Dawn Preview is 22 months newer than Nova Lite.

Atria Dawn Preview

Sep 11, 2026

5 days ago

1.8yr newer
Nova Lite

Nov 20, 2024

1.8 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Outputs Comparison

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FAQ

Common questions about Atria Dawn Preview vs Nova Lite.

Which is better, Atria Dawn Preview or Nova Lite?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 7.6. Atria Dawn Preview is made by Shanghai AI Laboratory and Nova Lite is made by Amazon. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Atria Dawn Preview compare to Nova Lite in benchmarks?

Atria Dawn Preview scores DeepSearchQA: 96.0%, BrowseComp: 92.5%, CyberGym: 86.5%, MLE-Bench Lite: 86.2%, WideSearch: 81.9%. Nova Lite scores GSM8k: 94.5%, ARC-C: 92.4%, DocVQA: 92.4%, IFEval: 89.7%, Translation en→Set1 COMET22: 88.8%.

What are the context window sizes for Atria Dawn Preview and Nova Lite?

Atria Dawn Preview supports an unknown number of tokens and Nova Lite supports 300K tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Atria Dawn Preview and Nova Lite?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (52.3 vs 7.6), multimodal support (no vs yes), licensing (MIT vs Proprietary). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Atria Dawn Preview and Nova Lite?

Atria Dawn Preview is developed by Shanghai AI Laboratory and Nova Lite is developed by Amazon.

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