Noometry

Model comparison

Amazon Nova Lite vs QwQ-32B

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Lite Amazon

31.9

Rank #265 Confirmed

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.8

Rank #159 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 0 categories and QwQ-32B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where QwQ-32B leads 72.6 to 59.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Reasoning: 36.7% for Amazon Nova Lite and 83.5% for QwQ-32B.
  • QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova LiteQwQ-32B
ProviderAmazonAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index31.939.8
Released2024-12-032024-11-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window300K—
Max output10K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.06—
Output $ / M tokens$0.24—
Results tracked3436

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Category by category

Coding QwQ-32B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwQ-32B
LiveBench Coding27.5%72.2%
LMArena Coding12391333
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
BigCodeBench Instruct—44.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.4%
ALE-Bench236.25—

Reasoning QwQ-32B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwQ-32B
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%83.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts12201325
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%65%
LiveBench36.4%72%
Chess Puzzles—5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—137.6
ForecastBench—58.3

Math QwQ-32B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwQ-32B
LiveBench Math36.7%77.8%
LMArena Math12271359
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—59.2%
Omni-MATH23.3%—

Knowledge QwQ-32B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwQ-32B
LMArena Expert12011324
GPQA Diamond—65.3%
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%—
MMLU-Pro60%—
Confabulations—15.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
GPQA (HELM)39.7%—
MMLU77%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), QwQ-32B: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwQ-32B
LMArena Vision990—

Multilingual QwQ-32B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English12081305
LMArena Chinese12251378
LMArena French12371336
LMArena German12291313
LMArena Japanese11531262
LMArena Korean11531279
LMArena Russian12161297
LMArena Spanish12261354

Instruction Following QwQ-32B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwQ-32B
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%81.8%
LMArena Instruction Following12051297
IFEval77.6%—

Long Context QwQ-32B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwQ-32B
LMArena Longer Query12341308
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference QwQ-32B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteQwQ-32B
LMArena Text12291329
LMArena Creative Writing11971288
LMArena Multi-Turn11991314
LiveBench Language25.9%51.4%
Short-Story Creative Writing—80.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1257
WildBench75%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Lite better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Amazon Nova Lite or QwQ-32B better for coding?

QwQ-32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.4 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and QwQ-32B share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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