Noometry

Model comparison

Amazon Nova Lite vs Llama 2-70B

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Lite Amazon

31.9

Rank #265 Confirmed

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-70B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 27.8 to 8.1.
  • Llama 2-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova LiteLlama 2-70B
ProviderAmazonMeta
Noometry Index31.924.4
Released2024-12-032023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window300K—
Max output10K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.06—
Output $ / M tokens$0.24—
Results tracked3435

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Category by category

Coding Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 2-70B
LMArena Coding12391079
LiveBench Coding27.5%—
ALE-Bench236.25—

Reasoning Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 2-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts12201073
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%—
DTBench—41.6%
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%—
BIG-Bench Hard—64.9%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—50%
Epoch Capabilities Index—113.79
ForecastBench—51.4
HellaSwag—85.3%
LAMBADA—78.9%
LiveBench36.4%—
PIQA—82.8%
WinoGrande—80.2%

Math Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 2-70B
LMArena Math12271091
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—0%
Omni-MATH23.3%—
LiveBench Math36.7%—
MATH Level 5—3.3%
GSM8K—69.6%

Knowledge Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 2-70B
LMArena Expert12011039
MMLU77%69.9%
GPQA Diamond—26.3%
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%—
MMLU-Pro60%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
GPQA (HELM)39.7%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—88.6%
OpenBookQA—60.2%
TriviaQA—87.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Llama 2-70B: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 2-70B
LMArena Vision990—

Multilingual Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 2-70B
LMArena Non-English12081045
LMArena Chinese1225995
LMArena French12371090
LMArena German12291041
LMArena Japanese1153927
LMArena Korean1153964
LMArena Russian12161083
LMArena Spanish12261143

Instruction Following Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 2-70B
LMArena Instruction Following12051071
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%—
IFEval77.6%—

Long Context Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 2-70B
LMArena Longer Query12341062

Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 2-70B
LMArena Text12291115
LMArena Creative Writing11971075
LMArena Multi-Turn11991088
WildBench75%—
LiveBench Language25.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Llama 2-70B?

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Amazon Nova Lite or Llama 2-70B better for coding?

Amazon Nova Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.5 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Llama 2-70B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.

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