Benchmark Almanac

Nova 2 Lite

Nova 2 Lite ranks first on QVHighlights.

Amazon Released 2 Dec 2025 Family Amazon Nova 2 The lab's model card
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Benchmarks with a score
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Ranked first, out of five or more models
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In the top three
Amazon Dec 2025

Nova 2 Lite

Closed weights Mid-size

No Epoch Capabilities Index score yet
  • IFBench 70.8% #42 /70
  • MMMU-Pro 61.8% #54 /72
  • BFCL V4 60.3% #17 /24

Where it ranks

Its best score on each benchmark, and where that ranks among every model with a score there. We rank each model once, at its best setting.

Knowledge and language

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MultiChallenge 76.6% #2 of 36 Model card
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (2025 dataset) 5.10% #12 of 104 Official leaderboard
MMLU-Pro 80.9% #68 of 151 Model card
LMArena (Elo) 1,335 #194 of 333 Official leaderboard
IFBench 70.8% #42 of 70 Model card
Longform Creative Writing (EQ-Bench) 38.8 #101 of 119 Official leaderboard
LongCodeBench 84% #2 of 2 Model card

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
AIME 2025 91% #45 of 143 Model card
GPQA Diamond 79.6% #114 of 284 Model card

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
LiveCodeBench v5 71% #8 of 44 Model card
SWE-bench Verified 64.5% #97 of 150 Model card

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
tau2-bench 76% #43 of 69 Model card
BFCL V4 60.3% #17 of 24 Model card
PinchBench 63.1% #37 of 48 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 32.5% #18 of 22 Model card
ScreenSpot 83.3% #10 of 11 Model card
PinchBench 2.0 37.6% #53 of 57 Official leaderboard
MCP Atlas 24.6% #40 of 40 Model card
tau2-bench Verified 70.7% #3 of 3 Model card

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
QVHighlights 77.2% #1 of 5 Model card
RealKIE-FCC Verified 62.1% #2 of 3 Model card
MMMU-Pro 61.8% #54 of 72 Model card
ParseBench 40.4% #37 of 42 Official leaderboard
OCRBench v2 56.1% #18 of 20 Model card

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Aegis 2.0 85.8% #1 of 3 Model card
Jigsaw Toxic Comment Classification 56.5% #2 of 3 Model card
WildGuardTest 84.7% #4 of 5 Model card

Its launch post

The benchmarks the lab chose to headline, with the scores it gave.

Its system card

Every result in the longer documents the lab published with it. 4 of them aren't in the launch post.