Model comparison
Nova 2 Lite vs QwQ-32B
Nova 2 Lite and QwQ-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.7 vs 39.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Nova 2 Lite scores higher in 5 categories and QwQ-32B in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where QwQ-32B leads 49.0 to 40.6.
- QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Nova 2 Lite | QwQ-32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 39.7 | 39.8 |
| Released | 2025-12-01 | 2024-11-28 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | — |
| Max output | 64K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.30 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2.50 | — |
| Results tracked | 19 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding Nova 2 Lite leads
Nova 2 Lite: 40.7 (#134), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1385 | 1333 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Nova 2 Lite: 24.1 (#121), QwQ-32B: —
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 27.1% | — |
Reasoning Nova 2 Lite leads
Nova 2 Lite: 27.5 (#118), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1364 | 1325 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 137.6 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |
Math Too close to call
Nova 2 Lite: 37.5 (#156), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1359 | 1359 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 59.2% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |
Knowledge Nova 2 Lite leads
Nova 2 Lite: 43.0 (#94), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1358 | 1324 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
Multilingual Nova 2 Lite leads
Nova 2 Lite: 47.1 (#153), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1337 | 1305 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1364 | 1378 |
| LMArena French | 1381 | 1336 |
| LMArena German | 1343 | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1271 | 1262 |
| LMArena Korean | 1284 | 1279 |
| LMArena Russian | 1343 | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1373 | 1354 |
Instruction Following QwQ-32B leads
Nova 2 Lite: 70.5 (#161), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1335 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |
Long Context QwQ-32B leads
Nova 2 Lite: 40.6 (#150), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1335 | 1308 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |
Writing & Preference Nova 2 Lite leads
Nova 2 Lite: 53.9 (#154), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1362 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1291 | 1288 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1338 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1257 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Nova 2 Lite better than QwQ-32B?
Nova 2 Lite and QwQ-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.7 vs 39.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Nova 2 Lite or QwQ-32B better for coding?
Nova 2 Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.7 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Nova 2 Lite and QwQ-32B share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nova 2 Lite has 19 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.