Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Deepseek Coder v2
Deepseek Coder v2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
DeepSeekSummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Deepseek Coder v2 in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Deepseek Coder v2 leads 34.9 to 27.8.
- Deepseek Coder v2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Deepseek Coder v2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | DeepSeek |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 35.9 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-06-17 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | — |
| Results tracked | 34 | 24 |
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Category by category
Coding Deepseek Coder v2 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Deepseek Coder v2: 38.1 (#183)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Deepseek Coder v2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1251 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 48.2% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 59.7% |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 82.3% |
| MBPP+ | — | 75.1% |
Reasoning Deepseek Coder v2 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Deepseek Coder v2: 23.6 (#176)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Deepseek Coder v2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1207 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 83.7% |
Math Deepseek Coder v2 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Deepseek Coder v2: 34.9 (#190)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Deepseek Coder v2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1241 |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 94.5% |
Knowledge Deepseek Coder v2 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Deepseek Coder v2: 32.3 (#212)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Deepseek Coder v2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1181 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 64.3% |
| MMLU | 77% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Deepseek Coder v2: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Deepseek Coder v2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |
Multilingual Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Deepseek Coder v2: 36.3 (#240)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Deepseek Coder v2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1182 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1201 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1185 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1164 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1126 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1104 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1188 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1153 |
Instruction Following Deepseek Coder v2 leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Deepseek Coder v2: 61.7 (#242)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Deepseek Coder v2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1180 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Deepseek Coder v2: 37.0 (#224)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Deepseek Coder v2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1219 |
Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Deepseek Coder v2: 38.2 (#253)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Deepseek Coder v2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1191 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1120 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1177 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Deepseek Coder v2?
Deepseek Coder v2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Deepseek Coder v2 better for coding?
Deepseek Coder v2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Deepseek Coder v2 share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Deepseek Coder v2 has 24.