Model Comparison

Nova Lite vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

7 benchmarks

Nova Lite outperforms in 1 benchmarks (ARC-C), while Qwen2.5 32B Instruct is better at 6 benchmarks (BBH, GPQA, GSM8k, HumanEval, MATH, MMLU).

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Cost data unavailable.

Lowest available price from all providers
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Amazon
Nova Lite
Input tokens$0.06
Output tokens$0.24
Best providerAWS Bedrock
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
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Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Nova Lite specifies input context (300,000 tokens). Only Nova Lite specifies output context (2,048 tokens).

Amazon
Nova Lite
Input300,000 tokens
Output2,048 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Nova Lite supports multimodal inputs, whereas Qwen2.5 32B Instruct does not.

Nova Lite can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Nova Lite

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Nova Lite is licensed under a proprietary license, while Qwen2.5 32B Instruct uses Apache 2.0.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Nova Lite

Proprietary

Closed source

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Nova Lite was released on 2024-11-20, while Qwen2.5 32B Instruct was released on 2024-09-19.

Nova Lite is 2 months newer than Qwen2.5 32B Instruct.

Nova Lite

Nov 20, 2024

1.4 years ago

2mo newer
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Sep 19, 2024

1.6 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

Amazon
Larger context window (300,000 tokens)
Supports multimodal inputs
Higher ARC-C score (92.4% vs 70.4%)
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Has open weights
Higher BBH score (84.5% vs 82.4%)
Higher GPQA score (49.5% vs 42.0%)
Higher GSM8k score (95.9% vs 94.5%)
Higher HumanEval score (88.4% vs 85.4%)
Higher MATH score (83.1% vs 73.3%)
Higher MMLU score (83.3% vs 80.5%)

Detailed Comparison

AI Model Comparison Table
Feature
Amazon
Nova Lite
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

FAQ

Common questions about Nova Lite vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct significantly outperforms across most benchmarks. Nova Lite is made by Amazon and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct is made by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their benchmark scores, pricing, and capabilities above.
Nova Lite scores GSM8k: 94.5%, ARC-C: 92.4%, DocVQA: 92.4%, IFEval: 89.7%, Translation en→Set1 COMET22: 88.8%. Qwen2.5 32B Instruct scores GSM8k: 95.9%, HumanEval: 88.4%, HellaSwag: 85.2%, BBH: 84.5%, MBPP: 84.0%.
Nova Lite supports 300K tokens and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.
Key differences include multimodal support (yes vs no), licensing (Proprietary vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.
Nova Lite is developed by Amazon and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.