Noometry

Model comparison

GPT-4 Turbo vs Nova 2 Lite

Nova 2 Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.0 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4 Turbo OpenAI

30.3

Rank #281 Confirmed

Nova 2 Lite Amazon

39.0

Rank #161 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4 Turbo scores higher in 0 categories 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 34.8 to 8.6.
  • Nova 2 Lite is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $10 / $30 for GPT-4 Turbo.
  • Nova 2 Lite accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

GPT-4 TurboNova 2 Lite
ProviderOpenAIAmazon
Noometry Index30.339.0
Released2023-11-062025-12-01
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window128K1M
Max output4K64K
Input $ / M tokens$10$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$30$2.50
Results tracked3619

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Category by category

Coding Nova 2 Lite leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 33.4 (#247), Nova 2 Lite: 40.1 (#131)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboNova 2 Lite
LMArena Coding12681386
WeirdML18%—
BigCodeBench Instruct48.2%—
BigCodeBench Complete58.2%—
HumanEval+86.6%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4 Turbo: —, Nova 2 Lite: 23.9 (#114)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboNova 2 Lite
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—27.1%
METR Time Horizons36.7%—

Reasoning Nova 2 Lite leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 14.9 (#311), Nova 2 Lite: 26.4 (#120)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboNova 2 Lite
LMArena Hard Prompts12511364
SimpleBench25.1%—
Chess Puzzles6%—
DTBench61.6%—
LMCA9.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index127.25—
ForecastBench59.4—

Math Nova 2 Lite leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 8.6 (#316), Nova 2 Lite: 34.8 (#154)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboNova 2 Lite
LMArena Math12721359
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.7%—
MATH Level 546.7%—

Knowledge Nova 2 Lite leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#263), Nova 2 Lite: 42.5 (#88)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboNova 2 Lite
LMArena Expert12231360
GPQA Diamond46.6%—
Confabulations28.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.1%
MMLU81.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4 Turbo: 30.0 (#104), Nova 2 Lite: —

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboNova 2 Lite
LMArena Vision1090—

Multilingual Nova 2 Lite leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 40.7 (#211), Nova 2 Lite: 47.3 (#148)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboNova 2 Lite
LMArena Non-English12451337
LMArena Chinese12421364
LMArena French12751381
LMArena German12591343
LMArena Japanese11941273
LMArena Korean11871284
LMArena Russian12591343
LMArena Spanish12601372

Instruction Following Nova 2 Lite leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 66.0 (#211), Nova 2 Lite: 70.7 (#156)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboNova 2 Lite
LMArena Instruction Following12501335

Long Context Nova 2 Lite leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#200), Nova 2 Lite: 40.6 (#145)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboNova 2 Lite
LMArena Longer Query12541335

Writing & Preference Nova 2 Lite leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 47.9 (#201), Nova 2 Lite: 54.1 (#150)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboNova 2 Lite
LMArena Text12721362
LMArena Creative Writing12691291
LMArena Multi-Turn12671338

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4 Turbo better than Nova 2 Lite?

Nova 2 Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.0 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4 Turbo or Nova 2 Lite?

Nova 2 Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; GPT-4 Turbo lists at $10 and $30.

Is GPT-4 Turbo or Nova 2 Lite better for coding?

Nova 2 Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.1 versus 33.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Nova 2 Lite does, with 1M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4 Turbo and Nova 2 Lite share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 Turbo has 36 scored results on Noometry and Nova 2 Lite has 19.

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