Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Codellama 34b Instruct
Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 5 categories and Codellama 34b Instruct in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 42.1 to 28.2.
- Codellama 34b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Codellama 34b Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 30.8 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | — |
| Results tracked | 34 | 14 |
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Category by category
Coding Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1046 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 29% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 37.1% |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 43.9% |
| MBPP+ | — | 56.3% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1032 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
Math Codellama 34b Instruct leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1056 |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Codellama 34b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Codellama 34b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |
Multilingual Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1011 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 976 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | — |
| LMArena German | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | — |
Instruction Following Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1028 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
Long Context Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1013 |
Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1066 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1032 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1015 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Codellama 34b Instruct?
Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Codellama 34b Instruct better for coding?
Amazon Nova Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.5 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Codellama 34b Instruct share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Codellama 34b Instruct has 14.