Noometry

Model comparison

Amazon Nova Lite vs Qwen2-72B

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Lite Amazon

31.9

Rank #265 Confirmed

Qwen2-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.0

Rank #300 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen2-72B in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 26.3 to 21.2.
  • Qwen2-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova LiteQwen2-72B
ProviderAmazonAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index31.930.0
Released2024-12-032024-06-07
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window300K—
Max output10K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.06—
Output $ / M tokens$0.24—
Results tracked3426

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Category by category

Coding Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Qwen2-72B: 29.1 (#310)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Coding12391196
WeirdML—11.3%
BigCodeBench Instruct—38.5%
LiveBench Coding27.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete—54%
ALE-Bench236.25—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: —, Qwen2-72B: 17.0 (#146)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen2-72B
TheAgentCompany—1.1%
METR Time Horizons—29.9%

Reasoning Qwen2-72B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Qwen2-72B: 23.2 (#181)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts12201191
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—125.28
LiveBench36.4%—

Math Qwen2-72B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Qwen2-72B: 30.2 (#236)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Math12271235
Omni-MATH23.3%—
LiveBench Math36.7%—
MATH Level 5—39.1%

Knowledge Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#275)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Expert12011171
MMLU77%82.4%
GPQA Diamond—40.8%
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%—
MMLU-Pro60%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
GPQA (HELM)39.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Qwen2-72B: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Vision990—

Multilingual Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Qwen2-72B: 35.9 (#244)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Non-English12081176
LMArena Chinese12251240
LMArena French12371170
LMArena German12291151
LMArena Japanese11531111
LMArena Korean11531083
LMArena Russian12161169
LMArena Spanish12261169

Instruction Following Qwen2-72B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Qwen2-72B: 61.7 (#241)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Instruction Following12051181
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%—
IFEval77.6%—

Long Context Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#235)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Longer Query12341192

Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Qwen2-72B: 40.8 (#241)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwen2-72B
LMArena Text12291203
LMArena Creative Writing11971181
LMArena Multi-Turn11991196
WildBench75%—
LiveBench Language25.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Qwen2-72B?

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Amazon Nova Lite or Qwen2-72B better for coding?

Amazon Nova Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.5 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Qwen2-72B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.

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