Model comparison
Nova 2 Lite vs Phi-2
Nova 2 Lite has enough public results to be ranked (#161); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
MicrosoftSummary
- Phi-2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Nova 2 Lite | Phi-2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 39.0 | — |
| Released | 2025-12-01 | 2023-12-12 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | — |
| Max output | 64K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.30 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2.50 | — |
| Results tracked | 19 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Nova 2 Lite: 40.1 (#131), Phi-2: —
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1386 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 45.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 54.2% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Nova 2 Lite: 23.9 (#114), Phi-2: —
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 27.1% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Nova 2 Lite: 26.4 (#120), Phi-2: —
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1364 | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 42.5% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 59.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 107.62 |
| HellaSwag | — | 53.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 54.7% |
Math Not comparable
Nova 2 Lite: 34.8 (#154), Phi-2: —
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1359 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Nova 2 Lite: 42.5 (#88), Phi-2: —
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1360 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 75.9% |
| MMLU | — | 58.4% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 73.6% |
| TriviaQA | — | 45.2% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Nova 2 Lite: 47.3 (#148), Phi-2: —
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1337 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1364 | — |
| LMArena French | 1381 | — |
| LMArena German | 1343 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1273 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1284 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1343 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1372 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Nova 2 Lite: 70.7 (#156), Phi-2: —
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1335 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Nova 2 Lite: 40.6 (#145), Phi-2: —
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1335 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Nova 2 Lite: 54.1 (#150), Phi-2: —
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1362 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1291 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1338 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Nova 2 Lite better than Phi-2?
Nova 2 Lite has enough public results to be ranked (#161); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Nova 2 Lite and Phi-2 share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nova 2 Lite has 19 scored results on Noometry and Phi-2 has 11.