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AI labs compared · October 2026

Amazon vs Meta: which AI lab is ahead?

Each lab's best model on sale goes head to head on every kind of work we measure, from our own benchmarks and licensed sources. 13 models in all; a lab is only as good as the model you would actually pick from it.

4 models on sale with our resultsAmazon Best: Nova 2 Lite · newest: Nova 2 Lite

9 models on sale with our resultsMeta Best: Muse Spark 1.3 · newest: Muse Spark 1.3

Amazon wins 1Meta wins 3

Kinds of work led by each lab's best model there, of the 4 both are measured on.

Results as of 8 October 2026 (catalogue release 2026-10-08-4199ce0620fe). Models on sale means listed on OpenRouter today.

Amazon or Meta? The short answer

Meta is ahead: its best models beat Amazon's in 3 of the 4 kinds of work both are measured on; Amazon leads in 1.

Pick Amazon for sticking to the facts.
Pick Meta for agents and tool use, reasoning and knowledge and writing.
Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 is #6 on our overall leaderboard; no Amazon model has enough of our results to be ranked there yet.
Prices start at $0.061 per million tokens for Amazon (Nova Micro 1.0) and $0.058 for Meta (Llama 3.1 8B Instruct).

Head to head

13.4Nova 2 Lite

Best Intelligence Index

48.1Muse Spark 1.3

$0.85Nova 2 Lite

Flagship price, per million tokens

$2.00Muse Spark 1.3

$0.061Nova Micro 1.0

Cheapest model, per million tokens

$0.058Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Models on sale with our results

Each line names the model behind the number. Prices are blended, three input tokens to one output, at the developer's list price where we have read it; see every model's price. Intelligence Index from Artificial Analysis; overall score from our leaderboard.

Which lab is better for what

For each kind of work, each lab's best model there and its rank among every model on sale. Further right is better; the better rank is in green.

Product listingsTurning a sparse product feed and photos into listings that can go live

not measured 9 of 20Muse Spark 1.3

Decks from an analysisTurning a finished analysis into a deck you could present as it is

not measured 14 of 19Muse Spark 1.3

Marketing planningPlanning a year of ad spend without overspending

not measured 12 of 19Muse Spark 1.3

Agents and tool useMulti-step tasks with tools: support desks, coding agents, function calls

133 of 164Nova 2 Lite 9 of 164Muse Spark 1.3

Professional workReal tasks from banking, consulting and law, business documents and freelance projects

not measured 8 of 51Muse Spark 1.3

Reasoning and knowledgeHard questions across science, maths and general knowledge

116 of 198Nova 2 Lite 8 of 198Muse Spark 1.3

WritingWhat people prefer in blind comparisons, and judged writing quality

169 of 188Nova 2 Lite 5 of 188Muse Spark 1.3

Sticking to the factsSummarising without inventing things, and factual answers

9 of 152Nova Pro 1.0 11 of 152Muse Spark 1.3

Speed under pressureGood decisions against a real clock (fast chess)

not measured 19 of 22Muse Spark 1.3

Every model, by intelligence and price

Each dot is a model on sale with an Intelligence Index from Artificial Analysis. Up is smarter; left is cheaper. Hover or tap a dot for its name.

AmazonMeta

On our overall leaderboard

The 1 of their models we rank overall: one score out of 100 across everything we publish (how the score works). Only models with enough of our own results are ranked.

#6Muse Spark 1.365

Benchmark by benchmark

The headline result of every benchmark both labs have models on: each lab's best model and its rank among the models on sale. Green marks the better rank.

Measure	Amazon	Meta
Agents and tool use
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) V4 · Overall accuracy · BFCL% correct, higher is better	27.1%Nova 2 Lite · 32 of 38	31.9%Llama 3.3 70B Instruct · 26 of 38
Artificial Analysis · Terminal-Bench 2.1% of tasks, higher is better	16.1%Nova 2 Lite · 87 of 115	85.4%Muse Spark 1.3 · 10 of 115
Reasoning and knowledge
Artificial Analysis · Artificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score, higher is better	13.4Nova 2 Lite · 119 of 198	48.1Muse Spark 1.3 · 8 of 198
Artificial Analysis · Humanity's Last Exam% of questions, higher is better	11.6%Nova 2 Lite · 124 of 197	48.7%Muse Spark 1.3 · 10 of 197
Artificial Analysis · GPQA Diamond% of questions, higher is better	81.1%Nova 2 Lite · 92 of 187	94.1%Muse Spark 1.3 · 5 of 187
Sticking to the facts
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard · Hallucination rate · Vectara% of summaries, lower is better	5.1%Nova 2 Lite · 6 of 79	7.7%Llama 4 Scout · 27 of 79
Arena (formerly LMArena) · Overall · Text factualityArena rating, higher is better	1,380Nova 2 Lite · 103 of 113	1,483Muse Spark 1.2 · 9 of 113
Writing
Arena (formerly LMArena) · Overall · TextArena rating, higher is better	1,335Nova 2 Lite · 138 of 166	1,494Muse Spark 1.3 · 7 of 166
UGI Leaderboard · Writing score · UGIscore out of 100, higher is better	23.5Nova 2 Lite · 131 of 138	26.7Llama 4 Scout · 120 of 138

Quick answers

Is Amazon or Meta better?

Meta is ahead: its best models beat Amazon's in 3 of the 4 kinds of work both are measured on; Amazon leads in 1.

What is Amazon's best model?

Nova 2 Lite: 13.4 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

What is Meta's best model?

Muse Spark 1.3: #6 on the Spring Prompt overall leaderboard and 48.1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

Which is better for agents and tool use, Amazon or Meta?

Meta: its best model there, Muse Spark 1.3, ranks 9 of 164 models on sale, against 133 for Amazon's Nova 2 Lite.

Which is better for reasoning and knowledge, Amazon or Meta?

Meta: its best model there, Muse Spark 1.3, ranks 8 of 198 models on sale, against 116 for Amazon's Nova 2 Lite.

Which is better for writing, Amazon or Meta?

Meta: its best model there, Muse Spark 1.3, ranks 5 of 188 models on sale, against 169 for Amazon's Nova 2 Lite.

Which is cheaper, Amazon or Meta?

Meta's cheapest model with results, Llama 3.1 8B Instruct, costs $0.058 per million tokens (three input to one output), against $0.061 for Nova Micro 1.0 from Amazon.

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