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Model comparison

Amazon Nova Lite vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Lite Amazon

31.9

Rank #265 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

29.0

Rank #320 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 3 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 27.8 to 12.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 60% for Amazon Nova Lite and 53.9% for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.
  • Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.17 / $0.70 for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.
  • Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
ProviderAmazonAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index31.929.0
Released2024-12-032024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window300K131K
Max output10K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.06$0.17
Output $ / M tokens$0.24$0.70
Results tracked3415

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Category by category

Coding Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 36.5 (#208)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LiveBench Coding27.5%—
LMArena Coding1239—
BigCodeBench Complete—46.1%
ALE-Bench236.25—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.8 (#124)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
BALROG—7.8%

Reasoning Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.8 (#322)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1220—
DTBench—47.7%
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%—
LMCA—6.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—118.51
LiveBench36.4%—

Math Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 12.6 (#306)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
Omni-MATH23.3%29.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—2.5%
LiveBench Math36.7%—
LMArena Math1227—

Knowledge Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#286)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
MMLU-Pro60%53.9%
GPQA (HELM)39.7%34.1%
MMLU77%72.9%
GPQA Diamond—35.5%
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
LMArena Expert1201—

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Vision990—

Multilingual Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1208—
LMArena Chinese1225—
LMArena French1237—
LMArena German1229—
LMArena Japanese1153—
LMArena Korean1153—
LMArena Russian1216—
LMArena Spanish1226—

Instruction Following Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.2 (#231)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
IFEval77.6%74.1%
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%—
LMArena Instruction Following1205—

Long Context Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1234—

Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#195)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
WildBench75%73.1%
LMArena Text1229—
LMArena Creative Writing1197—
LMArena Multi-Turn1199—
LiveBench Language25.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5 7B Instruct lists at $0.17 and $0.70.

Is Amazon Nova Lite or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.5 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 7B Instruct share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.

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