Model comparison
Grok 3 vs Nova 2 Lite
Grok 3 and Nova 2 Lite score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.9 vs 39.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 3 scores higher in 7 categories and Nova 2 Lite in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Nova 2 Lite leads 27.5 to 13.7.
Side by side
| Grok 3 | Nova 2 Lite | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Amazon |
| Noometry Index | 39.9 | 39.7 |
| Released | 2025-04-09 | 2025-12-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 64K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2.50 |
| Results tracked | 40 | 19 |
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Category by category
Coding Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 41.9 (#115), Nova 2 Lite: 40.7 (#134)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1432 | 1385 |
| Aider Polyglot | 53.3% | — |
| WeirdML | 37.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 30.5 (#76), Nova 2 Lite: 24.1 (#121)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 27.1% |
| BALROG | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Nova 2 Lite leads
Grok 3: 13.7 (#333), Nova 2 Lite: 27.5 (#118)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1434 | 1364 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 36.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 61.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5.5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.33 | — |
Math Too close to call
Grok 3: 38.0 (#145), Nova 2 Lite: 37.5 (#156)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1391 | 1359 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 55.6% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 46.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 88.7% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 3.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
Knowledge Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 46.2 (#82), Nova 2 Lite: 43.0 (#94)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.8% | 5.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1421 | 1358 |
| GPQA Diamond | 75.8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.8% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.2% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | — |
Multilingual Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 52.3 (#87), Nova 2 Lite: 47.1 (#153)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1410 | 1337 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | 1364 |
| LMArena French | 1460 | 1381 |
| LMArena German | 1431 | 1343 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1387 | 1271 |
| LMArena Korean | 1373 | 1284 |
| LMArena Russian | 1416 | 1343 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1417 | 1373 |
Instruction Following Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 75.0 (#73), Nova 2 Lite: 70.5 (#161)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1409 | 1335 |
| IFEval | 88.4% | — |
Long Context Nova 2 Lite leads
Grok 3: 38.7 (#192), Nova 2 Lite: 40.6 (#150)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1439 | 1335 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | — |
Writing & Preference Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 55.8 (#141), Nova 2 Lite: 53.9 (#154)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1426 | 1362 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1414 | 1291 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1425 | 1338 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.4% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| WildBench | 84.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok 3 better than Nova 2 Lite?
Grok 3 and Nova 2 Lite score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.9 vs 39.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Grok 3 or Nova 2 Lite better for coding?
Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 40.7 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Grok 3 and Nova 2 Lite share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Nova 2 Lite has 19.