Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Qwen1.5-7B
Amazon Nova Lite and Qwen1.5-7B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 31.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen1.5-7B in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 42.1 to 29.6.
- Qwen1.5-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen1.5-7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 31.4 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-02-04 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | — |
| Results tracked | 34 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Qwen1.5-7B: 32.2 (#276)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1107 |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
Reasoning Qwen1.5-7B leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Qwen1.5-7B: 20.4 (#240)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1065 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
Math Qwen1.5-7B leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Qwen1.5-7B: 31.4 (#224)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1080 |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
Knowledge Qwen1.5-7B leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.7 (#243)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1055 |
| MMLU | 77% | 62.6% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Qwen1.5-7B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |
Multilingual Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.5 (#271)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1058 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1141 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1006 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | — |
| LMArena German | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | — |
Instruction Following Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Qwen1.5-7B: 54.1 (#281)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1058 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
Long Context Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Qwen1.5-7B: 33.1 (#266)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1090 |
Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Qwen1.5-7B: 29.6 (#293)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1083 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1035 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1062 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Qwen1.5-7B?
Amazon Nova Lite and Qwen1.5-7B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 31.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Qwen1.5-7B better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (32.5 vs 32.2); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Qwen1.5-7B share?
13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-7B has 13.