# Amazon Nova Lite vs StarCoder 2 7B

> Amazon Nova Lite has enough public results to be ranked (#265); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-starcoder-2-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 7B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- StarCoder 2 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 37.0 |
| Rank | 265 | — |
| Context | 300K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270)
- StarCoder 2 7B: 34.8

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.7% |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 29.9% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 93.56 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 32.7% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 77% | 38.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 38.7% |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | — |
| 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)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | — |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than StarCoder 2 7B?

Amazon Nova Lite has enough public results to be ranked (#265); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or StarCoder 2 7B better for coding?

StarCoder 2 7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.8 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and StarCoder 2 7B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 7B has 7.