# Nova 2 Lite vs Phi-2

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

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

## Summary

- Phi-2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

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

## Coding

- Nova 2 Lite: 40.1 (#131)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1386 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 45.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 54.2% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Nova 2 Lite: 23.9 (#114)
- Phi-2: —

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

## Reasoning

- Nova 2 Lite: 26.4 (#120)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1364 | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 42.5% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 59.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 107.62 |
| HellaSwag | — | 53.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 54.7% |

## Math

- Nova 2 Lite: 34.8 (#154)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1359 | — |

## Knowledge

- Nova 2 Lite: 42.5 (#88)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1360 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 75.9% |
| MMLU | — | 58.4% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 73.6% |
| TriviaQA | — | 45.2% |

## Multilingual

- Nova 2 Lite: 47.3 (#148)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| 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

- Nova 2 Lite: 70.7 (#156)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1335 | — |

## Long Context

- Nova 2 Lite: 40.6 (#145)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1335 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Nova 2 Lite: 54.1 (#150)
- Phi-2: —

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

## FAQ

### Is Nova 2 Lite better than Phi-2?

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

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

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nova 2 Lite has 19 scored results on Noometry and Phi-2 has 11.