Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads with 2.7% higher average benchmark score. Nova Lite offers 162.8K more tokens in context window than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct. Both models have similar pricing. Nova Lite supports multimodal inputs. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is available on 4 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Amazon
Amazon Nova Lite was developed as a lightweight multimodal model, designed to provide efficient AI capabilities for text and image understanding. Built to serve cost-sensitive applications with quick response times, it represents Amazon's entry-level offering in the Nova family.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen 2.5 72B was developed as the flagship text model in the Qwen 2.5 series, designed to provide advanced language capabilities with 72 billion parameters. Built to compete with frontier models in reasoning, coding, and general language tasks, it represents Qwen's most capable instruction-following model in this generation.
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Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

Nova Lite
Amazon
2024-11-20
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Nova Lite

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

Nova Lite

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Nova Lite
Bedrock

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Nova Lite

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Nova Lite

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Hyperbolic
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