# Amazon Nova Lite vs QwQ-32B

> QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-qwq-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 24

## Summary

- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 0 categories and QwQ-32B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where QwQ-32B leads 72.6 to 59.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Reasoning: 36.7% for Amazon Nova Lite and 83.5% for QwQ-32B.
- QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 39.8 |
| Rank | 265 | 159 |
| Context | 300K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270)
- QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | 72.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1333 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260)
- QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | 83.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1325 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | 65% |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | 72% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 137.6 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247)
- QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | 77.8% |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1359 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 59.2% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259)
- QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1324 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.3% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123)
- QwQ-32B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232)
- QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1305 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1378 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1336 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1262 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1279 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1354 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255)
- QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | 81.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1297 |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217)
- QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1308 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237)
- QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1288 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1314 |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | 51.4% |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1257 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or QwQ-32B better for coding?

QwQ-32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.4 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and QwQ-32B share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.