Noometry

Model comparison

Nova 2 Lite vs Qwen3-4B

Nova 2 Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.7 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Nova 2 Lite Amazon

39.7

Rank #161 Confirmed

Qwen3-4B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.9

Rank #264 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Nova 2 Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3-4B in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Nova 2 Lite leads 43.0 to 33.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 27.1% for Nova 2 Lite and 35.7% for Qwen3-4B.
  • Qwen3-4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Nova 2 LiteQwen3-4B
ProviderAmazonAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.731.9
Released2025-12-012025-04-29
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$2.50—
Results tracked196

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Nova 2 Lite: 40.7 (#134), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3-4B
LMArena Coding1385—

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3-4B leads

Nova 2 Lite: 24.1 (#121), Qwen3-4B: 27.6 (#100)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3-4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard27.1%35.7%

Reasoning Nova 2 Lite leads

Nova 2 Lite: 27.5 (#118), Qwen3-4B: 19.2 (#268)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3-4B
Chess Puzzles—4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1364—

Math Nova 2 Lite leads

Nova 2 Lite: 37.5 (#156), Qwen3-4B: 29.7 (#240)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3-4B
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—38.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—52.2%
LMArena Math1359—

Knowledge Nova 2 Lite leads

Nova 2 Lite: 43.0 (#94), Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#208)

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3-4B
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.1%5.7%
GPQA Diamond—52.3%
LMArena Expert1358—

Multilingual Not comparable

Nova 2 Lite: 47.1 (#153), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3-4B
LMArena Non-English1337—
LMArena Chinese1364—
LMArena French1381—
LMArena German1343—
LMArena Japanese1271—
LMArena Korean1284—
LMArena Russian1343—
LMArena Spanish1373—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Nova 2 Lite: 70.5 (#161), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3-4B
LMArena Instruction Following1335—

Long Context Not comparable

Nova 2 Lite: 40.6 (#150), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3-4B
LMArena Longer Query1335—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Nova 2 Lite: 53.9 (#154), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkNova 2 LiteQwen3-4B
LMArena Text1362—
LMArena Creative Writing1291—
LMArena Multi-Turn1338—

Frequently asked questions

Is Nova 2 Lite better than Qwen3-4B?

Nova 2 Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.7 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Nova 2 Lite and Qwen3-4B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nova 2 Lite has 19 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.

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