# Amazon Nova Lite vs Codellama 70b Instruct

> Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-codellama-70b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Codellama 70b Instruct in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 38.0 to 24.8.
- Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 33.7 |
| Rank | 265 | 237 |
| Context | 300K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270)
- Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 40.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 49.6% |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 65.9% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260)
- Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1052 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247)
- Codellama 70b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259)
- Codellama 70b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123)
- Codellama 70b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232)
- Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 992 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | — |
| LMArena French | 1237 | — |
| LMArena German | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255)
- Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1024 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217)
- Codellama 70b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237)
- Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1057 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | — |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Codellama 70b Instruct?

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or Codellama 70b Instruct better for coding?

Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Codellama 70b Instruct share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Codellama 70b Instruct has 7.