Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Qwen3 32B
Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 12× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3 32B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 32B in 8 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3 32B leads 40.0 to 26.3.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $2.80 for Qwen3 32B.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 131K.
- Qwen3 32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 39.2 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | 131K |
| Max output | 10K | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | $0.70 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | $2.80 |
| Results tracked | 34 | 26 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3 32B leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Qwen3 32B: 37.7 (#190)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1358 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 40% |
| SciCode | — | 35.4% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: —, Qwen3 32B: 32.6 (#62)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 48.7% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Qwen3 32B: 20.2 (#241)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1334 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 54.9% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| DTBench | — | 67.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LMCA | — | 17.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 138.51 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
Math Qwen3 32B leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Qwen3 32B: 39.7 (#99)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1399 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 66.9% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3 32B leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#125)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | 5.9% |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1362 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.7% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Qwen3 32B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |
Multilingual Qwen3 32B leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Qwen3 32B: 45.6 (#167)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1317 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1357 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1341 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1311 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | — |
Instruction Following Qwen3 32B leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Qwen3 32B: 68.9 (#179)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1305 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
Long Context Qwen3 32B leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Qwen3 32B: 43.8 (#87)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1327 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 74.2% |
Writing & Preference Qwen3 32B leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Qwen3 32B: 52.9 (#163)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1297 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1331 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Qwen3 32B?
Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 12× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3 32B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Qwen3 32B?
Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Qwen3 32B lists at $0.70 and $2.80.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Qwen3 32B better for coding?
Qwen3 32B 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 Qwen3 32B share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.