# Amazon Nova Lite vs Qwen1.5-72B

> Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-qwen1-5-72b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 26.3 to 11.5.
- Qwen1.5-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 30.8 |
| Rank | 265 | 285 |
| Context | 300K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1165 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 33.2% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 40.3% |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 59.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 61.6% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1148 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1164 |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1136 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 28.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123)
- Qwen1.5-72B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1135 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1186 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1159 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1084 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1061 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1050 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1104 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1110 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1141 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1157 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1166 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1137 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1160 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (32.5 vs 31.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Qwen1.5-72B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.