Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs StarCoder 2 15B
Amazon Nova Lite has enough public results to be ranked (#265); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIASummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 15B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where StarCoder 2 15B leads 36.6 to 32.5.
- StarCoder 2 15B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | StarCoder 2 15B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 38.1 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-02-20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | — |
| Results tracked | 34 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding StarCoder 2 15B leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), StarCoder 2 15B: 36.6
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.4% |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 37.8% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 105 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 64.3% |
Math Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 57.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 77% | 64.1% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 47.2% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| 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), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| 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 StarCoder 2 15B?
Amazon Nova Lite has enough public results to be ranked (#265); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?
StarCoder 2 15B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.6 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and StarCoder 2 15B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.