# INTELLECT-1 vs Nova 2 Lite

> Nova 2 Lite has enough public results to be ranked (#161); INTELLECT-1 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/intellect-1-vs-nova-2-lite
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Snapshot

| | INTELLECT-1 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Hugging Face | Amazon |
| Noometry Index | — | 39.0 |
| Rank | — | 161 |
| Context | — | 1M |
| Input $/M | — | $0.30 |
| Output $/M | — | $2.50 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- INTELLECT-1: —
- Nova 2 Lite: 40.1 (#131)

| Benchmark | INTELLECT-1 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1386 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- INTELLECT-1: —
- Nova 2 Lite: 23.9 (#114)

| Benchmark | INTELLECT-1 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 27.1% |

## Reasoning

- INTELLECT-1: —
- Nova 2 Lite: 26.4 (#120)

| Benchmark | INTELLECT-1 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1364 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 34.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 100.38 | — |
| HellaSwag | 71.4% | — |
| WinoGrande | 65.8% | — |

## Math

- INTELLECT-1: —
- Nova 2 Lite: 34.8 (#154)

| Benchmark | INTELLECT-1 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1359 |
| GSM8K | 38.6% | — |

## Knowledge

- INTELLECT-1: —
- Nova 2 Lite: 42.5 (#88)

| Benchmark | INTELLECT-1 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1360 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 54.5% | — |
| MMLU | 49.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- INTELLECT-1: —
- Nova 2 Lite: 47.3 (#148)

| Benchmark | INTELLECT-1 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1337 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1364 |
| LMArena French | — | 1381 |
| LMArena German | — | 1343 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1273 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1284 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1343 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1372 |

## Instruction Following

- INTELLECT-1: —
- Nova 2 Lite: 70.7 (#156)

| Benchmark | INTELLECT-1 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1335 |

## Long Context

- INTELLECT-1: —
- Nova 2 Lite: 40.6 (#145)

| Benchmark | INTELLECT-1 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1335 |

## Writing & Preference

- INTELLECT-1: —
- Nova 2 Lite: 54.1 (#150)

| Benchmark | INTELLECT-1 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1362 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1291 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1338 |

## FAQ

### Is INTELLECT-1 better than Nova 2 Lite?

Nova 2 Lite has enough public results to be ranked (#161); INTELLECT-1 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do INTELLECT-1 and Nova 2 Lite share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. INTELLECT-1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Nova 2 Lite has 19.