Noometry

Model comparison

Nova 2 Lite vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Nova 2 Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.7 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index. Qwen2.5 7B Instruct costs 2.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Nova 2 Lite's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

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Nova 2 Lite Amazon

39.7

Rank #161 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

29.0

Rank #320 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Nova 2 Lite leads 43.0 to 17.0.
  • Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is cheaper at $0.17 / $0.70 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $2.50 for Nova 2 Lite.
  • Nova 2 Lite accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Nova 2 LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
ProviderAmazonAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.729.0
Released2025-12-012024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M131K
Max output64K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$0.17
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$0.70
Results tracked1915

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Category by category

Coding Nova 2 Lite leads

Nova 2 Lite: 40.7 (#134), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 36.5 (#208)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1385—
BigCodeBench Complete—46.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

Nova 2 Lite: 24.1 (#121), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.8 (#124)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard27.1%—
BALROG—7.8%

Reasoning Nova 2 Lite leads

Nova 2 Lite: 27.5 (#118), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.8 (#322)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1364—
DTBench—47.7%
LMCA—6.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—118.51

Math Nova 2 Lite leads

Nova 2 Lite: 37.5 (#156), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 12.6 (#306)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—2.5%
Omni-MATH—29.4%
LMArena Math1359—

Knowledge Nova 2 Lite leads

Nova 2 Lite: 43.0 (#94), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#286)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
GPQA Diamond—35.5%
MMLU-Pro—53.9%
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.1%—
GPQA (HELM)—34.1%
LMArena Expert1358—
MMLU—72.9%

Multilingual Not comparable

Nova 2 Lite: 47.1 (#153), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1337—
LMArena Chinese1364—
LMArena French1381—
LMArena German1343—
LMArena Japanese1271—
LMArena Korean1284—
LMArena Russian1343—
LMArena Spanish1373—

Instruction Following Nova 2 Lite leads

Nova 2 Lite: 70.5 (#161), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.2 (#231)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
IFEval—74.1%
LMArena Instruction Following1335—

Long Context Not comparable

Nova 2 Lite: 40.6 (#150), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1335—

Writing & Preference Nova 2 Lite leads

Nova 2 Lite: 53.9 (#154), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#195)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Text1362—
LMArena Creative Writing1291—
WildBench—73.1%
LMArena Multi-Turn1338—

Frequently asked questions

Is Nova 2 Lite better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Nova 2 Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.7 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index. Qwen2.5 7B Instruct costs 2.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Nova 2 Lite's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Nova 2 Lite or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.17 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; Nova 2 Lite lists at $0.30 and $2.50.

Is Nova 2 Lite or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?

Nova 2 Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.7 versus 36.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Nova 2 Lite does, with 1M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Nova 2 Lite and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nova 2 Lite has 19 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.

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