Model comparison

Amazon Nova Lite vs Llama 2-7B

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Lite Amazon

31.9

Rank #265 Confirmed

Llama 2-7B Meta

29.1

Rank #317 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 2-7B in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 38.0 to 23.8.
  • Llama 2-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova Lite and Llama 2-7B specifications
Amazon Nova LiteLlama 2-7B
ProviderAmazonMeta
Noometry Index31.929.1
Released2024-12-032023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window300K—
Max output10K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.06—
Output $ / M tokens$0.24—
Results tracked3429

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Category by category

Coding Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Llama 2-7B: 29.2 (#307)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 2-7B
LMArena Coding12391002
LiveBench Coding27.5%—
ALE-Bench236.25—

Reasoning Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Llama 2-7B: 15.7 (#312)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 2-7B
LMArena Hard Prompts12201009
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%—
BIG-Bench Hard—39.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—99.06
HellaSwag—77.2%
LAMBADA—73.3%
LiveBench36.4%—
PIQA—78.8%
WinoGrande—69.2%

Math Llama 2-7B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Llama 2-7B: 30.7 (#233)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 2-7B
LMArena Math12271042
Omni-MATH23.3%—
LiveBench Math36.7%—
GSM8K—16.7%

Knowledge Llama 2-7B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#248)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 2-7B
LMArena Expert12011036
MMLU77%45.8%
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%—
MMLU-Pro60%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
GPQA (HELM)39.7%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—45.9%
BoolQ—77.9%
OpenBookQA—58.6%
TriviaQA—73.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Llama 2-7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 2-7B
LMArena Vision990—
ScienceQA—43.1%

Multilingual Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Llama 2-7B: 23.8 (#293)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 2-7B
LMArena Non-English1208973
LMArena Chinese1225973
LMArena French1237970
LMArena German1229978
LMArena Russian1216995
LMArena Spanish12261007
LMArena Japanese1153—
LMArena Korean1153—

Instruction Following Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Llama 2-7B: 50.8 (#298)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 2-7B
LMArena Instruction Following12051006
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%—
IFEval77.6%—

Long Context Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#287)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 2-7B
LMArena Longer Query1234999

Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Llama 2-7B: 28.0 (#298)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 2-7B
LMArena Text12291053
LMArena Creative Writing11971033
LMArena Multi-Turn11991029
WildBench75%—
LiveBench Language25.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Llama 2-7B?

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Amazon Nova Lite or Llama 2-7B better for coding?

Amazon Nova Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.5 versus 29.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Llama 2-7B share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-7B has 29.

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