Noometry

Model comparison

Nova 2 Lite vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct

Nova 2 Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.0 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Nova 2 Lite Amazon

39.0

Rank #161 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

29.4

Rank #298 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Nova 2 Lite leads 26.4 to 20.0.
  • Nova 2 Lite is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2.80 / $8.40 for Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct.
  • Nova 2 Lite accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Nova 2 LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
ProviderAmazonAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.029.4
Released2025-12-012024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M131K
Max output64K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$2.80
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$8.40
Results tracked196

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Nova 2 Lite: 40.1 (#131), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Coding1386—

Agentic & Tool Use Nova 2 Lite leads

Nova 2 Lite: 23.9 (#114), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.4 (#136)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard27.1%—
OSWorld—5%

Reasoning Nova 2 Lite leads

Nova 2 Lite: 26.4 (#120), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.0 (#228)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
Kagi LLM Benchmark—36%
LMArena Hard Prompts1364—

Math Not comparable

Nova 2 Lite: 34.8 (#154), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Math1359—

Knowledge Not comparable

Nova 2 Lite: 42.5 (#88), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.1%—
LMArena Expert1360—

Multimodal Not comparable

Nova 2 Lite: —, Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 32.9 (#92)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Vision—1107
Video-MME—73.5%
GeoBench—62%
SpatialViz-Bench—33.3%

Multilingual Not comparable

Nova 2 Lite: 47.3 (#148), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1337—
LMArena Chinese1364—
LMArena French1381—
LMArena German1343—
LMArena Japanese1273—
LMArena Korean1284—
LMArena Russian1343—
LMArena Spanish1372—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Nova 2 Lite: 70.7 (#156), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1335—

Long Context Not comparable

Nova 2 Lite: 40.6 (#145), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1335—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Nova 2 Lite: 54.1 (#150), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Text1362—
LMArena Creative Writing1291—
LMArena Multi-Turn1338—

Frequently asked questions

Is Nova 2 Lite better than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?

Nova 2 Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.0 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Nova 2 Lite or Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?

Nova 2 Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct lists at $2.80 and $8.40.

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-VL 72B Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nova 2 Lite has 19 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6.

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