Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
Amazon Nova Lite has enough public results to be ranked (#265); Qwen2.5 14B Instruct does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Qwen2.5 14B Instruct leads 37.7 to 32.5.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.35 / $1.40 for Qwen2.5 14B Instruct.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 131K.
- Qwen2.5 14B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 38.7 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | 131K |
| Max output | 10K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | $0.35 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | $1.40 |
| Results tracked | 34 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen2.5 14B Instruct leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: 37.7 (#191)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 39.8% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 52.2% |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
Math Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 77% | 79.9% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | — |
| LMArena French | 1237 | — |
| LMArena German | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | — |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Qwen2.5 14B Instruct?
Amazon Nova Lite has enough public results to be ranked (#265); Qwen2.5 14B Instruct does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Qwen2.5 14B Instruct?
Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5 14B Instruct lists at $0.35 and $1.40.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Qwen2.5 14B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.7 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct has 3.