Noometry

Model comparison

Nova 2 Lite vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B

Nova 2 Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.7 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Nova 2 Lite Amazon

39.7

Rank #161 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.4

Rank #245 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Nova 2 Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Nova 2 Lite leads 40.7 to 22.6.
  • Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is cheaper at $0.66 / $1 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $2.50 for Nova 2 Lite.
  • Nova 2 Lite accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 33K.
  • Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Nova 2 LiteQwen2.5-Coder-32B
ProviderAmazonAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.733.4
Released2025-12-012024-09-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M33K
Max output64K29K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.66
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$1
Results tracked1931

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Category by category

Coding Nova 2 Lite leads

Nova 2 Lite: 40.7 (#134), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Coding13851276
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—9%
Aider Polyglot—16.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct—49%
LiveBench Coding—56.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—58%
HumanEval+—87.2%
MBPP+—77%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Nova 2 Lite: 24.1 (#121), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: —

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen2.5-Coder-32B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard27.1%—

Reasoning Nova 2 Lite leads

Nova 2 Lite: 27.5 (#118), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts13641251
LiveBench Reasoning—42.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis—49.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—119.49
HellaSwag—83%
LiveBench—46.2%
WinoGrande—80.8%

Math Nova 2 Lite leads

Nova 2 Lite: 37.5 (#156), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Math13591251
LiveBench Math—46.6%
GSM8K—93%

Knowledge Nova 2 Lite leads

Nova 2 Lite: 43.0 (#94), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Expert13581221
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.1%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—70.5%
MMLU—79.1%

Multilingual Nova 2 Lite leads

Nova 2 Lite: 47.1 (#153), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Non-English13371205
LMArena Chinese13641222
LMArena Russian13431228
LMArena French1381—
LMArena German1343—
LMArena Japanese1271—
LMArena Korean1284—
LMArena Spanish1373—

Instruction Following Nova 2 Lite leads

Nova 2 Lite: 70.5 (#161), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Instruction Following13351223
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.7%

Long Context Nova 2 Lite leads

Nova 2 Lite: 40.6 (#150), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Longer Query13351251

Writing & Preference Nova 2 Lite leads

Nova 2 Lite: 53.9 (#154), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Text13621230
LMArena Creative Writing12911174
LMArena Multi-Turn13381222
LiveBench Language—23.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Nova 2 Lite better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

Nova 2 Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.7 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Nova 2 Lite or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is cheaper. It lists at $0.66 per million input tokens and $1 per million output tokens; Nova 2 Lite lists at $0.30 and $2.50.

Is Nova 2 Lite or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better for coding?

Nova 2 Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.7 versus 22.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Nova 2 Lite does, with 1M tokens against 33K.

How many benchmarks do Nova 2 Lite and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nova 2 Lite has 19 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.

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