GPT-5 Codex vs Nova Lite
OpenAI vs Amazon — benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities side by side.
- •GPT-5 Codex has the higher intelligence index (87.1 vs 57.7)
- •Nova Lite is cheaper ($0.06 vs $1.25 per 1M input)
- •GPT-5 Codex is faster
- •GPT-5 Codex has a larger context window (400K)
| GPT-5 Codex | Nova Lite | |
|---|---|---|
| Intelligence index | 87.1 | 57.7 |
| Developer | OpenAI | Amazon |
| Type | Multimodal | Multimodal |
| Access | API only | API only |
| Context window | 400,000 tokens | 300,000 tokens |
| Input price | $1.25 / 1M | $0.06 / 1M |
| Output price | $10.00 / 1M | $0.24 / 1M |
| Speed | 180 tok/s | 100 tok/s |
| Released | September 23, 2025 | November 20, 2024 |
| Parameters | — | — |
| Input modalities | Text, Image | — |
| Output modalities | Text | — |
Shared benchmarks
GPT-5 Codex
Nova Lite
AIME 2025
98.7
7
GPQA Diamond
83.7
42
Humanity’s Last Exam
25.6
4.6
LiveCodeBench
84
16.7
MMLU-Pro
86.5
59