Noometry

Model comparison

Nova 2 Lite vs Qwen3.5-Flash

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 39.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Nova 2 Lite Amazon

39.7

Rank #161 Confirmed

Qwen3.5-Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

42.5

Rank #112 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Nova 2 Lite scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen3.5-Flash in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Nova 2 Lite leads 40.7 to 34.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Vectara Hallucination Rate: 5.1% for Nova 2 Lite and 10.5% for Qwen3.5-Flash.
  • Qwen3.5-Flash is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $2.50 for Nova 2 Lite.

Side by side

Nova 2 LiteQwen3.5-Flash
ProviderAmazonAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.742.5
Released2025-12-012026-02-23
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M1M
Max output64K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$0.40
Results tracked1932

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Category by category

Coding Nova 2 Lite leads

Nova 2 Lite: 40.7 (#134), Qwen3.5-Flash: 34.2 (#242)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Coding13851412
LMArena WebDev—1244
ALE-Bench—221.8

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Nova 2 Lite: 24.1 (#121), Qwen3.5-Flash: —

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3.5-Flash
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard27.1%—
Vending-Bench 2—462.69

Reasoning Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Nova 2 Lite: 27.5 (#118), Qwen3.5-Flash: 33.7 (#72)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Hard Prompts13641403
Chess Puzzles—21%
Mystery Game Puzzles—20%
DTBench—82.9%
LMCA—29.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—143.98

Math Too close to call

Nova 2 Lite: 37.5 (#156), Qwen3.5-Flash: 37.4 (#158)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Math13591407
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—18.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—84.4%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—6.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Too close to call

Nova 2 Lite: 43.0 (#94), Qwen3.5-Flash: 43.2 (#93)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3.5-Flash
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.1%10.5%
LMArena Expert13581407
GPQA Diamond—82.3%
SimpleQA Verified—20.3%

Multilingual Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Nova 2 Lite: 47.1 (#153), Qwen3.5-Flash: 50.5 (#121)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Non-English13371385
LMArena Chinese13641446
LMArena French13811412
LMArena German13431390
LMArena Japanese12711368
LMArena Korean12841344
LMArena Russian13431379
LMArena Spanish13731400

Instruction Following Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Nova 2 Lite: 70.5 (#161), Qwen3.5-Flash: 72.6 (#139)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Instruction Following13351374

Long Context Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Nova 2 Lite: 40.6 (#150), Qwen3.5-Flash: 42.4 (#124)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Longer Query13351392

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Nova 2 Lite: 53.9 (#154), Qwen3.5-Flash: 57.9 (#122)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Text13621397
LMArena Creative Writing12911343
LMArena Multi-Turn13381393

Frequently asked questions

Is Nova 2 Lite better than Qwen3.5-Flash?

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 39.7 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Nova 2 Lite or Qwen3.5-Flash?

Qwen3.5-Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Nova 2 Lite lists at $0.30 and $2.50.

Is Nova 2 Lite or Qwen3.5-Flash better for coding?

Nova 2 Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.7 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 1M tokens.

How many benchmarks do Nova 2 Lite and Qwen3.5-Flash share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nova 2 Lite has 19 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-Flash has 32.

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