Model comparison

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview vs Qwen2-72B

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

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Nova 2.0 Pro Preview Amazon

33.4

Rank #244 Reported

Qwen2-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.0

Rank #300 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in coding, where Nova 2.0 Pro Preview leads 40.8 to 29.1.
  • Qwen2-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview and Qwen2-72B specifications
Nova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen2-72B
ProviderAmazonAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.430.0
Released2025-12-022024-06-07
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked326

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Category by category

Coding Nova 2.0 Pro Preview leads

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 40.8 (#133), Qwen2-72B: 29.1 (#310)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen2-72B
SciCode42.7%—
WeirdML—11.3%
BigCodeBench Instruct—38.5%
LMArena Coding—1196
BigCodeBench Complete—54%

Agentic & Tool Use Nova 2.0 Pro Preview leads

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 21.9 (#136), Qwen2-72B: 17.0 (#146)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen2-72B
TheAgentCompany—1.1%
GDP.pdf2%—
METR Time Horizons—29.9%

Reasoning Too close to call

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 22.4 (#194), Qwen2-72B: 23.2 (#181)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen2-72B
CritPt0%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1191
Epoch Capabilities Index—125.28

Math Not comparable

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —, Qwen2-72B: 30.2 (#236)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen2-72B
LMArena Math—1235
MATH Level 5—39.1%

Knowledge Not comparable

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —, Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#275)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen2-72B
GPQA Diamond—40.8%
LMArena Expert—1171
MMLU—82.4%

Multilingual Not comparable

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —, Qwen2-72B: 35.9 (#244)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen2-72B
LMArena Non-English—1176
LMArena Chinese—1240
LMArena French—1170
LMArena German—1151
LMArena Japanese—1111
LMArena Korean—1083
LMArena Russian—1169
LMArena Spanish—1169

Instruction Following Not comparable

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —, Qwen2-72B: 61.7 (#241)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen2-72B
LMArena Instruction Following—1181

Long Context Not comparable

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —, Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#235)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen2-72B
LMArena Longer Query—1192

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —, Qwen2-72B: 40.8 (#241)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen2-72B
LMArena Text—1203
LMArena Creative Writing—1181
LMArena Multi-Turn—1196

Frequently asked questions

Is Nova 2.0 Pro Preview better than Qwen2-72B?

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Nova 2.0 Pro Preview or Qwen2-72B better for coding?

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.8 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Nova 2.0 Pro Preview and Qwen2-72B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nova 2.0 Pro Preview has 3 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.

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