Model comparison

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview vs QwQ-32B

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview Amazon

33.4

Rank #244 Reported

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.8

Rank #159 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in coding, where Nova 2.0 Pro Preview leads 40.8 to 35.4.
  • QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview and QwQ-32B specifications
Nova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwQ-32B
ProviderAmazonAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.439.8
Released2025-12-022024-11-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked336

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Category by category

Coding Nova 2.0 Pro Preview leads

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 40.8 (#133), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwQ-32B
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
SciCode42.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—44.6%
LiveBench Coding—72.2%
LMArena Coding—1333
BigCodeBench Complete—54.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 21.9 (#136), QwQ-32B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwQ-32B
GDP.pdf2%—

Reasoning QwQ-32B leads

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 22.4 (#194), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwQ-32B
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles—5%
LiveBench Reasoning—83.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1325
LiveBench Data Analysis—65%
Epoch Capabilities Index—137.6
ForecastBench—58.3
LiveBench—72%

Math Not comparable

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —, QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwQ-32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—59.2%
LiveBench Math—77.8%
LMArena Math—1359

Knowledge Not comparable

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —, QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwQ-32B
GPQA Diamond—65.3%
Confabulations—15.6%
LMArena Expert—1324

Multilingual Not comparable

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —, QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English—1305
LMArena Chinese—1378
LMArena French—1336
LMArena German—1313
LMArena Japanese—1262
LMArena Korean—1279
LMArena Russian—1297
LMArena Spanish—1354

Instruction Following Not comparable

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —, QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwQ-32B
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.8%
LMArena Instruction Following—1297

Long Context Not comparable

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —, QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwQ-32B
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%
LMArena Longer Query—1308

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —, QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkNova 2.0 Pro PreviewQwQ-32B
LMArena Text—1329
LMArena Creative Writing—1288
Short-Story Creative Writing—80.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1257
LMArena Multi-Turn—1314
LiveBench Language—51.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Nova 2.0 Pro Preview better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Nova 2.0 Pro Preview or QwQ-32B better for coding?

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.8 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Nova 2.0 Pro Preview and QwQ-32B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nova 2.0 Pro Preview has 3 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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