Noometry

Model comparison

Nova 2 Lite vs Qwen3 32B

Nova 2 Lite and Qwen3 32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.7 vs 39.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Nova 2 Lite Amazon

39.7

Rank #161 Confirmed

Qwen3 32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.2

Rank #172 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Nova 2 Lite scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen3 32B in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Qwen3 32B leads 32.6 to 24.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 27.1% for Nova 2 Lite and 48.7% for Qwen3 32B.
  • Nova 2 Lite is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $2.80 for Qwen3 32B.
  • Nova 2 Lite accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen3 32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Nova 2 LiteQwen3 32B
ProviderAmazonAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.739.2
Released2025-12-012025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M131K
Max output64K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$2.80
Results tracked1926

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Category by category

Coding Nova 2 Lite leads

Nova 2 Lite: 40.7 (#134), Qwen3 32B: 37.7 (#190)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3 32B
LMArena Coding13851358
Aider Polyglot—40%
SciCode—35.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3 32B leads

Nova 2 Lite: 24.1 (#121), Qwen3 32B: 32.6 (#62)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3 32B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard27.1%48.7%

Reasoning Nova 2 Lite leads

Nova 2 Lite: 27.5 (#118), Qwen3 32B: 20.2 (#241)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3 32B
LMArena Hard Prompts13641334
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—5%
DTBench—67.5%
LMCA—17.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—138.51

Math Qwen3 32B leads

Nova 2 Lite: 37.5 (#156), Qwen3 32B: 39.7 (#99)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3 32B
LMArena Math13591399
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—66.9%

Knowledge Nova 2 Lite leads

Nova 2 Lite: 43.0 (#94), Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#125)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3 32B
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.1%5.9%
LMArena Expert13581362
GPQA Diamond—65.7%

Multilingual Nova 2 Lite leads

Nova 2 Lite: 47.1 (#153), Qwen3 32B: 45.6 (#167)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3 32B
LMArena Non-English13371317
LMArena Chinese13641357
LMArena German13431341
LMArena Russian13431311
LMArena French1381—
LMArena Japanese1271—
LMArena Korean1284—
LMArena Spanish1373—

Instruction Following Nova 2 Lite leads

Nova 2 Lite: 70.5 (#161), Qwen3 32B: 68.9 (#179)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3 32B
LMArena Instruction Following13351305

Long Context Qwen3 32B leads

Nova 2 Lite: 40.6 (#150), Qwen3 32B: 43.8 (#87)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3 32B
LMArena Longer Query13351327
Fiction.LiveBench—74.2%

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Nova 2 Lite: 53.9 (#154), Qwen3 32B: 52.9 (#163)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3 32B
LMArena Text13621340
LMArena Creative Writing12911297
LMArena Multi-Turn13381331

Frequently asked questions

Is Nova 2 Lite better than Qwen3 32B?

Nova 2 Lite and Qwen3 32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.7 vs 39.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Nova 2 Lite or Qwen3 32B?

Nova 2 Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; Qwen3 32B lists at $0.70 and $2.80.

Is Nova 2 Lite or Qwen3 32B better for coding?

Nova 2 Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.7 versus 37.7 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Nova 2 Lite does, with 1M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Nova 2 Lite and Qwen3 32B share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nova 2 Lite has 19 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.

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