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Amazon Nova Lite vs Qwen1.5-72B

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Lite Amazon

31.9

Rank #265 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.8

Rank #285 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 26.3 to 11.5.
  • Qwen1.5-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova LiteQwen1.5-72B
ProviderAmazonAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index31.930.8
Released2024-12-032024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window300K—
Max output10K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.06—
Output $ / M tokens$0.24—
Results tracked3422

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Coding12391165
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.2%
LiveBench Coding27.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete—40.3%
ALE-Bench236.25—
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—61.6%

Reasoning Qwen1.5-72B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts12201148
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%—
LiveBench36.4%—

Math Qwen1.5-72B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Math12271164
Omni-MATH23.3%—
LiveBench Math36.7%—

Knowledge Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Expert12011136
GPQA Diamond—28.8%
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%—
MMLU-Pro60%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
GPQA (HELM)39.7%—
MMLU77%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Qwen1.5-72B: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Vision990—

Multilingual Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Non-English12081135
LMArena Chinese12251186
LMArena French12371159
LMArena German12291084
LMArena Japanese11531061
LMArena Korean11531050
LMArena Russian12161104
LMArena Spanish12261110

Instruction Following Too close to call

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Instruction Following12051141
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%—
IFEval77.6%—

Long Context Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Longer Query12341157

Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Text12291166
LMArena Creative Writing11971137
LMArena Multi-Turn11991160
WildBench75%—
LiveBench Language25.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Amazon Nova Lite or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (32.5 vs 31.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Qwen1.5-72B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.

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