Noometry

Model comparison

Nova 2 Lite vs Qwen3.6 Plus

Qwen3.6 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 39.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Nova 2 Lite Amazon

39.7

Rank #161 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

47.5

Rank #62 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Nova 2 Lite scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Plus in 8 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.6 Plus leads 51.8 to 37.5.
  • Nova 2 Lite is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $3 for Qwen3.6 Plus.

Side by side

Nova 2 LiteQwen3.6 Plus
ProviderAmazonAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.747.5
Released2025-12-012026-03-31
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M1M
Max output64K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.50
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$3
Results tracked1937

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Nova 2 Lite: 40.7 (#134), Qwen3.6 Plus: 40.8 (#130)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Coding13851467
SWE-bench Verified—57.9%
LMArena WebDev—1461
SciCode—40.7%
ALE-Bench—670.15

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Nova 2 Lite: 24.1 (#121), Qwen3.6 Plus: —

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3.6 Plus
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard27.1%—
Vending-Bench 2—5,115

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Nova 2 Lite: 27.5 (#118), Qwen3.6 Plus: 29.3 (#93)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Hard Prompts13641449
NYT Connections (extended)—60.3%
CritPt—2.9%
Chess Puzzles—17%
Thematic Generalization—59.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles—12%
DTBench—81.9%
LMCA—33.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—147.65

Math Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Nova 2 Lite: 37.5 (#156), Qwen3.6 Plus: 51.8 (#54)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Math13591450
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—38.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—93.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—26.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—8.3%

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Nova 2 Lite: 43.0 (#94), Qwen3.6 Plus: 56.1 (#45)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Expert13581454
GPQA Diamond—88.4%
SimpleQA Verified—44.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.1%—

Multilingual Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Nova 2 Lite: 47.1 (#153), Qwen3.6 Plus: 53.3 (#70)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Non-English13371424
LMArena Chinese13641477
LMArena French13811455
LMArena German13431452
LMArena Japanese12711389
LMArena Korean12841379
LMArena Russian13431434
LMArena Spanish13731432

Instruction Following Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Nova 2 Lite: 70.5 (#161), Qwen3.6 Plus: 75.0 (#74)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Instruction Following13351425

Long Context Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Nova 2 Lite: 40.6 (#150), Qwen3.6 Plus: 45.2 (#49)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Longer Query13351439
CL-bench—20.3%

Writing & Preference Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Nova 2 Lite: 53.9 (#154), Qwen3.6 Plus: 62.2 (#82)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text13621437
LMArena Creative Writing12911404
LMArena Multi-Turn13381438

Frequently asked questions

Is Nova 2 Lite better than Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 39.7 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Nova 2 Lite or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Nova 2 Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; Qwen3.6 Plus lists at $0.50 and $3.

Is Nova 2 Lite or Qwen3.6 Plus better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (40.7 vs 40.8); test both on your own repository before choosing.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 1M tokens.

How many benchmarks do Nova 2 Lite and Qwen3.6 Plus share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nova 2 Lite has 19 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Plus has 37.

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