Model comparison

Amazon Nova Lite vs Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct

Amazon Nova Lite and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 32.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 4 categories and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 26.3 to 19.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 60% for Amazon Nova Lite and 41.4% for Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct.
  • Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova Lite and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct specifications
Amazon Nova LiteOlmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
ProviderAmazonAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index31.932.7
Released2024-12-03—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window300K—
Max output10K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.06—
Output $ / M tokens$0.24—
Results tracked3416

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Category by category

Coding Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 35.2 (#227)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteOlmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Coding12391210
LiveBench Coding27.5%—
ALE-Bench236.25—

Reasoning Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 23.6 (#175)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteOlmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts12201208
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%—
LiveBench36.4%—

Math Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 26.8 (#255)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteOlmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
Omni-MATH23.3%16.1%
LMArena Math12271208
LiveBench Math36.7%—

Knowledge Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 19.5 (#279)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteOlmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
MMLU-Pro60%41.4%
GPQA (HELM)39.7%28.7%
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
LMArena Expert1201—
MMLU77%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteOlmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Vision990—

Multilingual Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 34.8 (#248)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteOlmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Non-English12081160
LMArena Chinese12251192
LMArena Russian12161187
LMArena French1237—
LMArena German1229—
LMArena Japanese1153—
LMArena Korean1153—
LMArena Spanish1226—

Instruction Following Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 61.5 (#244)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteOlmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
IFEval77.6%78%
LMArena Instruction Following12051186
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%—

Long Context Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 36.2 (#234)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteOlmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query12341194

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 42.1 (#236)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteOlmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Text12291218
LMArena Creative Writing11971199
WildBench75%73.4%
LMArena Multi-Turn11991221
LiveBench Language25.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct?

Amazon Nova Lite and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 32.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Amazon Nova Lite or Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct better for coding?

Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.2 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct has 16.

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