Model comparison
Nova Premier 1.0 vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
Nova Premier 1.0 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 32.9 on the Noometry Index. Qwen2.5-Coder-32B costs 6.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Nova Premier 1.0's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Nova Premier 1.0 leads 51.0 to 41.8.
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is cheaper at $0.66 / $1 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $12.50 for Nova Premier 1.0.
- Nova Premier 1.0 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 33K.
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 37.7 | 32.9 |
| Released | 2025-04-30 | 2024-09-18 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | 33K |
| Max output | 10K | 29K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | $0.66 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $12.50 | $1 |
| Results tracked | 6 | 31 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Nova Premier 1.0: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.4 (#328)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 9% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 16.4% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 49% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 56.9% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1276 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 58% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 87.2% |
| MBPP+ | — | 77% |
Reasoning Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Nova Premier 1.0: 22.3 (#182), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 20.4 (#220)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 44.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 42.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1251 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 49.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 119.41 |
| HellaSwag | — | 83% |
| LiveBench | — | 46.2% |
| WinoGrande | — | 80.8% |
Math Too close to call
Nova Premier 1.0: 31.5 (#194), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 30.8 (#203)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 35% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 46.6% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1251 |
| GSM8K | — | 93% |
Knowledge Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Nova Premier 1.0: 35.4 (#176), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 32.9 (#200)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 72.6% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 51.8% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1221 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 70.5% |
| MMLU | — | 79.1% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Nova Premier 1.0: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#230)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1205 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1222 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1228 |
Instruction Following Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Nova Premier 1.0: 66.9 (#201), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.6 (#240)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 58.7% |
| IFEval | 80.3% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1223 |
Long Context Not comparable
Nova Premier 1.0: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.9 (#204)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1251 |
Writing & Preference Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Nova Premier 1.0: 51.0 (#174), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.8 (#235)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1230 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1174 |
| WildBench | 78.8% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1222 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 23.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Nova Premier 1.0 better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?
Nova Premier 1.0 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 32.9 on the Noometry Index. Qwen2.5-Coder-32B costs 6.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Nova Premier 1.0's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Nova Premier 1.0 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 Premier 1.0 lists at $2.50 and $12.50.
Which has the bigger context window?
Nova Premier 1.0 does, with 1M tokens against 33K.
How many benchmarks do Nova Premier 1.0 and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nova Premier 1.0 has 6 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.