# DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) vs Nova 2 Lite

> Nova 2 Lite has enough public results to be ranked (#161); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-v2-vs-nova-2-lite
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Amazon |
| Noometry Index | 40.3 | 39.7 |
| Rank | — | 161 |
| Context | — | 1M |
| Input $/M | — | $0.30 |
| Output $/M | — | $2.50 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): 40.4 (#139)
- Nova 2 Lite: 40.7 (#134)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1385 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.4% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Nova 2 Lite: 24.1 (#121)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 27.1% |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Nova 2 Lite: 27.5 (#118)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1364 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 78.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 124.77 | — |
| HellaSwag | 87.1% | — |
| PIQA | 83.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 86.3% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Nova 2 Lite: 37.5 (#156)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1359 |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Nova 2 Lite: 43.0 (#94)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1358 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 92.2% | — |
| MMLU | 78.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 80% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Nova 2 Lite: 47.1 (#153)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1337 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1364 |
| LMArena French | — | 1381 |
| LMArena German | — | 1343 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1271 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1284 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1343 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1373 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Nova 2 Lite: 70.5 (#161)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1335 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Nova 2 Lite: 40.6 (#150)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1335 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Nova 2 Lite: 53.9 (#154)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1362 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1291 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1338 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) better than Nova 2 Lite?

Nova 2 Lite has enough public results to be ranked (#161); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) or Nova 2 Lite better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (40.4 vs 40.7); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and Nova 2 Lite share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has 10 scored results on Noometry and Nova 2 Lite has 19.