# Amazon Nova Lite vs Llama 2-70B

> Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-llama-2-70b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-70B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 27.8 to 8.1.
- Llama 2-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 24.4 |
| Rank | 265 | 349 |
| Context | 300K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270)
- Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1079 |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260)
- Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1073 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| DTBench | — | 41.6% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 64.9% |
| CommonsenseQA 2.0 | — | 50% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 113.79 |
| ForecastBench | — | 51.4 |
| HellaSwag | — | 85.3% |
| LAMBADA | — | 78.9% |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
| PIQA | — | 82.8% |
| WinoGrande | — | 80.2% |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247)
- Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1091 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 0% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 3.3% |
| GSM8K | — | 69.6% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259)
- Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1039 |
| MMLU | 77% | 69.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 26.3% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.3% |
| BoolQ | — | 88.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 60.2% |
| TriviaQA | — | 87.6% |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123)
- Llama 2-70B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232)
- Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1045 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 995 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1090 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1041 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 927 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 964 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1083 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1143 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255)
- Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1071 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217)
- Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1062 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237)
- Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1115 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1075 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1088 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Llama 2-70B?

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or Llama 2-70B better for coding?

Amazon Nova Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.5 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Llama 2-70B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.