Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 25.8 to 15.3.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $2.80 for Qwen2.5 32B Instruct.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 131K.
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.4 | 29.7 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | 131K |
| Max output | 10K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | $0.70 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | $2.80 |
| Results tracked | 34 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.0 (#266), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 38.1 (#165)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 52.3% |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Amazon Nova Lite: 18.5 (#257), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 18.5 (#262)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 128.52 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
Math Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.8 (#243), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 15.3 (#289)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 7.4% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 56.1% |
Knowledge Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.0 (#254), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 24.9 (#259)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 46.1% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.0 (#118), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.2 (#227), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5 32B 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 | 1225 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.6 (#250), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#212), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.3 (#232), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5 32B 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 32B Instruct?
Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?
Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5 32B Instruct lists at $0.70 and $2.80.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 32.0 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 32B Instruct share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has 7.