Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.
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-VL 72B Instruct in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multimodal, where Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct leads 33.5 to 25.5.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $2.80 / $8.40 for Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 131K.
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 29.9 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | 131K |
| Max output | 10K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | $2.80 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | $8.40 |
| Results tracked | 34 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: —, Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.6 (#144)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OSWorld | — | 5% |
Reasoning Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.7 (#233)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 36% |
| 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-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |
Multimodal Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 33.5 (#97)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | 1107 |
| Video-MME | — | 73.5% |
| GeoBench | — | 62% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 33.3% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5-VL 72B 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-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5-VL 72B 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-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen2.5-VL 72B 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-VL 72B Instruct?
Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?
Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct lists at $2.80 and $8.40.
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-VL 72B Instruct share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6.