Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Nova 2 Lite

Nova 2 Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.7 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Nova 2 Lite Amazon

39.7

Rank #161 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 1 category and Nova 2 Lite in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Nova 2 Lite leads 37.5 to 14.8.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusNova 2 Lite
ProviderAnthropicAmazon
Noometry Index29.539.7
Released2024-02-292025-12-01
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—64K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.30
Output $ / M tokens—$2.50
Results tracked4619

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Category by category

Coding Nova 2 Lite leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Nova 2 Lite: 40.7 (#134)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusNova 2 Lite
LMArena Coding12641385
WeirdML19.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Nova 2 Lite: 24.1 (#121)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusNova 2 Lite
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—27.1%
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Nova 2 Lite leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Nova 2 Lite: 27.5 (#118)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusNova 2 Lite
LMArena Hard Prompts12451364
SimpleBench23.5%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
DTBench61.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Nova 2 Lite leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Nova 2 Lite: 37.5 (#156)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusNova 2 Lite
LMArena Math12731359
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
LiveBench Math43.6%—
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge Nova 2 Lite leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Nova 2 Lite: 43.0 (#94)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusNova 2 Lite
LMArena Expert12231358
GPQA Diamond47.2%—
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.1%
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Nova 2 Lite: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusNova 2 Lite
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Nova 2 Lite leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Nova 2 Lite: 47.1 (#153)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusNova 2 Lite
LMArena Non-English12581337
LMArena Chinese12481364
LMArena French12751381
LMArena German12581343
LMArena Japanese12041271
LMArena Korean11871284
LMArena Russian12801343
LMArena Spanish12461373

Instruction Following Nova 2 Lite leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Nova 2 Lite: 70.5 (#161)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusNova 2 Lite
LMArena Instruction Following12481335
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Nova 2 Lite leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Nova 2 Lite: 40.6 (#150)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusNova 2 Lite
LMArena Longer Query12591335

Writing & Preference Nova 2 Lite leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Nova 2 Lite: 53.9 (#154)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusNova 2 Lite
LMArena Text12621362
LMArena Creative Writing12351291
LMArena Multi-Turn12751338
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Nova 2 Lite?

Nova 2 Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.7 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Nova 2 Lite better for coding?

Nova 2 Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.7 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Nova 2 Lite share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Nova 2 Lite has 19.

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