Model comparison

Amazon Nova Lite vs Llama 2-13B

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Lite Amazon

31.4

Rank #262 Confirmed

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.1

Rank #304 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 2-13B in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 42.3 to 30.0.
  • Llama 2-13B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova Lite and Llama 2-13B specifications
Amazon Nova LiteLlama 2-13B
ProviderAmazonMeta
Noometry Index31.429.1
Released2024-12-032023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window300K—
Max output10K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.06—
Output $ / M tokens$0.24—
Results tracked3432

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Category by category

Coding Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 32.0 (#266), Llama 2-13B: 30.4 (#287)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 2-13B
LMArena Coding12391062
LiveBench Coding27.5%—
ALE-Bench236.25—

Reasoning Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 18.5 (#257), Llama 2-13B: 12.3 (#333)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 2-13B
LMArena Hard Prompts12201051
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%—
DTBench—42.2%
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%—
BIG-Bench Hard—58.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—105.8
HellaSwag—80.7%
LAMBADA—76.5%
LiveBench36.4%—
PIQA—80.8%
WinoGrande—72.8%

Math Llama 2-13B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.8 (#243), Llama 2-13B: 28.7 (#226)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 2-13B
LMArena Math12271065
Omni-MATH23.3%—
LiveBench Math36.7%—
GSM8K—36.9%

Knowledge Llama 2-13B leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 26.0 (#254), Llama 2-13B: 27.5 (#244)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 2-13B
LMArena Expert12011030
MMLU77%55.6%
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%—
MMLU-Pro60%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
GPQA (HELM)39.7%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—60.3%
BoolQ—82.4%
OpenBookQA—57%
TriviaQA—79.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.0 (#118), Llama 2-13B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 2-13B
LMArena Vision990—
ScienceQA—55.8%

Multilingual Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 38.2 (#227), Llama 2-13B: 26.7 (#274)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 2-13B
LMArena Non-English12081024
LMArena Chinese12251001
LMArena French12371043
LMArena German12291009
LMArena Japanese1153894
LMArena Korean1153953
LMArena Russian12161055
LMArena Spanish12251086

Instruction Following Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.6 (#250), Llama 2-13B: 53.5 (#282)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 2-13B
LMArena Instruction Following12051046
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%—
IFEval77.6%—

Long Context Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#212), Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#264)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 2-13B
LMArena Longer Query12341064

Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 42.3 (#232), Llama 2-13B: 30.0 (#284)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteLlama 2-13B
LMArena Text12291085
LMArena Creative Writing11971047
LMArena Multi-Turn11991050
WildBench75%—
LiveBench Language25.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Llama 2-13B?

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Amazon Nova Lite or Llama 2-13B better for coding?

Amazon Nova Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.0 versus 30.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Llama 2-13B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-13B has 32.

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