Model comparison

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview vs Qwen1.5-72B

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.8 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

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Nova 2.0 Pro Preview Amazon

32.8

Rank #241 Reported

Qwen1.5-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.3

Rank #282 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in coding, where Nova 2.0 Pro Preview leads 40.2 to 31.4.
  • Qwen1.5-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview and Qwen1.5-72B specifications
Nova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen1.5-72B
ProviderAmazonAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index32.830.3
Released2025-12-022024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Max output——
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Results tracked322

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Category by category

Coding Nova 2.0 Pro Preview leads

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 40.2 (#130), Qwen1.5-72B: 31.4 (#272)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen1.5-72B
SciCode42.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.2%
LMArena Coding—1166
BigCodeBench Complete—40.3%
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—61.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 21.9 (#127), Qwen1.5-72B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen1.5-72B
GDP.pdf2%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 21.7 (#189), Qwen1.5-72B: 21.2 (#201)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen1.5-72B
CritPt0%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1148

Math Not comparable

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 30.7 (#205)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Math—1164

Knowledge Not comparable

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#295)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen1.5-72B
GPQA Diamond—28.8%
LMArena Expert—1136

Multilingual Not comparable

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 33.4 (#248)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Non-English—1135
LMArena Chinese—1186
LMArena French—1158
LMArena German—1084
LMArena Japanese—1061
LMArena Korean—1049
LMArena Russian—1104
LMArena Spanish—1110

Instruction Following Not comparable

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 59.6 (#251)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Instruction Following—1142

Long Context Not comparable

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 35.0 (#238)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Longer Query—1157

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 37.4 (#253)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Text—1166
LMArena Creative Writing—1137
LMArena Multi-Turn—1160

Frequently asked questions

Is Nova 2.0 Pro Preview better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.8 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Nova 2.0 Pro Preview or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.2 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Nova 2.0 Pro Preview and Qwen1.5-72B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nova 2.0 Pro Preview has 3 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.

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