Model comparison

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview vs Qwen3.5 27B

Qwen3.5 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.4 to 32.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview Amazon

32.8

Rank #241 Reported

Qwen3.5 27B Alibaba (Qwen)

41.4

Rank #127 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5 27B leads 26.6 to 21.7.
  • Qwen3.5 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview and Qwen3.5 27B specifications
Nova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen3.5 27B
ProviderAmazonAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index32.841.4
Released2025-12-022026-02-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.30
Output $ / M tokens—$2.40
Results tracked328

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Category by category

Coding Nova 2.0 Pro Preview leads

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 40.2 (#130), Qwen3.5 27B: 38.6 (#159)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen3.5 27B
LMArena WebDev—1357
SciCode42.7%—
WeirdML—39.5%
LMArena Coding—1427
ALE-Bench—349.45

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 21.9 (#127), Qwen3.5 27B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen3.5 27B
GDP.pdf2%—
Vending-Bench 2—201.98

Reasoning Qwen3.5 27B leads

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 21.7 (#189), Qwen3.5 27B: 26.6 (#116)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen3.5 27B
NYT Connections (extended)—47.9%
CritPt0%—
Thematic Generalization—45.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1414
DTBench—82.4%
LMCA—34%

Math Not comparable

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —, Qwen3.5 27B: 36.8 (#103)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen3.5 27B
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—56.7%
LMArena Math—1428

Knowledge Not comparable

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —, Qwen3.5 27B: 37.4 (#149)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen3.5 27B
Vectara Hallucination Rate—12.1%
LMArena Expert—1428

Multimodal Not comparable

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —, Qwen3.5 27B: 38.7 (#56)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Vision—1240

Multilingual Not comparable

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —, Qwen3.5 27B: 51.0 (#112)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Non-English—1390
LMArena Chinese—1478
LMArena French—1409
LMArena German—1393
LMArena Japanese—1345
LMArena Korean—1359
LMArena Russian—1389
LMArena Spanish—1408

Instruction Following Not comparable

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —, Qwen3.5 27B: 73.7 (#114)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Instruction Following—1393

Long Context Not comparable

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —, Qwen3.5 27B: 43.1 (#103)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Longer Query—1413

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —, Qwen3.5 27B: 59.5 (#106)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Text—1409
LMArena Creative Writing—1362
LMArena Multi-Turn—1410

Frequently asked questions

Is Nova 2.0 Pro Preview better than Qwen3.5 27B?

Qwen3.5 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.4 to 32.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Nova 2.0 Pro Preview or Qwen3.5 27B better for coding?

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.2 versus 38.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Nova 2.0 Pro Preview and Qwen3.5 27B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nova 2.0 Pro Preview has 3 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 27B has 28.

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