# Amazon Nova Lite vs Llama 2-13B

> Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-llama-2-13b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 2-13B in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 42.3 to 30.0.
- Llama 2-13B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 31.4 | 29.1 |
| Rank | 262 | 304 |
| Context | 300K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.0 (#266)
- Llama 2-13B: 30.4 (#287)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1062 |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 18.5 (#257)
- Llama 2-13B: 12.3 (#333)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1051 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| DTBench | — | 42.2% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 58.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 105.8 |
| HellaSwag | — | 80.7% |
| LAMBADA | — | 76.5% |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
| PIQA | — | 80.8% |
| WinoGrande | — | 72.8% |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.8 (#243)
- Llama 2-13B: 28.7 (#226)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1065 |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 36.9% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.0 (#254)
- Llama 2-13B: 27.5 (#244)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1030 |
| MMLU | 77% | 55.6% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 60.3% |
| BoolQ | — | 82.4% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 57% |
| TriviaQA | — | 79.6% |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.0 (#118)
- Llama 2-13B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |
| ScienceQA | — | 55.8% |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.2 (#227)
- Llama 2-13B: 26.7 (#274)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1024 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1001 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1043 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1009 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 894 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 953 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1055 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1086 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.6 (#250)
- Llama 2-13B: 53.5 (#282)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1046 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#212)
- Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#264)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1064 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.3 (#232)
- Llama 2-13B: 30.0 (#284)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1085 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1047 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1050 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Llama 2-13B?

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or Llama 2-13B better for coding?

Amazon Nova Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.0 versus 30.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Llama 2-13B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-13B has 32.