Nova 2 Lite vs DeepSeek V3 0324
Nova 2 Lite leads DeepSeek V3 0324 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 13.4 to 9.7, and DeepSeek V3 0324 costs 2.3x less per output token ($1.07 vs $2.50 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 2 benchmarks have a result for both.
Nova 2 Lite or DeepSeek V3 0324: which to pick
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Nova 2 Lite for a larger context window (1M against 164K tokens).
- Shared results
- 2
- Nova 2 Lite only
- 29
- DeepSeek V3 0324 only
- 33
- Like-for-like categories
- 2 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Neither has a coding score yet.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Nova 2 Lite
Nova 2 Lite leads, 13.4 against 9.7.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only DeepSeek V3 0324 has a AA Agentic Index result, 0.8.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only DeepSeek V3 0324 has a GPQA Diamond result, 61.6%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only DeepSeek V3 0324 has a AIME result, 52.2%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only DeepSeek V3 0324 has a MMLU Pro result, 79.5%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Nova 2 Lite
Nova 2 Lite takes 1M tokens against 164K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
DeepSeek V3 0324
Nova 2 Lite $0.0015, DeepSeek V3 0324 $0.0008 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Nova 2 Lite not benchmarked, DeepSeek V3 0324 not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Intelligence, 3.7 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- AA Intelligence Index: Nova 2 Lite 13.4 against DeepSeek V3 0324 9.7, 3.7 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Nova 2 Lite $2.50 against DeepSeek V3 0324 $1.07 per million output tokens, 2.3x apart.
- Context window
- Nova 2 Lite takes 1M tokens, DeepSeek V3 0324 164K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Nova 2 Lite | Bars | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 1 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 2 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index10
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | Not measured | 42.0% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| AA Coding Index | 23.0 | 21.2 | Nova 2 Lite |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 65.5% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 40.5% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 39.0% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 15.2% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| WeirdML | Not measured | 36.1% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| ALE-Bench | 236.3 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1385 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1394 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 29 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 13.4 | 9.7 | Nova 2 Lite |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index3 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | Not measured | 0.8 | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 47.1% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| METR time horizons | Not measured | 49.6% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 38 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not measured | 61.6% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 65.5% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 4.7% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | Not measured | 67.6% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| SimpleBench | Not measured | 27.2% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1364 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1359 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1385 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | Not measured | 52.2% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 88.6% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | Not measured | 91.7% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| AA Math Index | Not measured | 41.0 | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 41.0% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | Not measured | 37.8% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| MATH level 5 | Not measured | 75.5% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1359 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1369 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | Not measured | 79.5% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 77.7% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | Not measured | 54.7% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | Not measured | 71.1% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | Not measured | 82.0% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 81.9% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1382 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1386 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1359 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1369 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
Web designNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 9 boards here | |||
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index23 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFBench | Not measured | 41.0% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | Not measured | 40.7% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| DTBench | Not measured | 64.8% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| LMCA | Not measured | 15.5% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| Fiction.LiveBench | Not measured | 50.0% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | Not measured | 77.0% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1362 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1335 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1292 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1385 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1337 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1364 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1343 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1273 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1281 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1381 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1375 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1342 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1327 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1338 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1335 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1318 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1309 | Not measured | Only Nova 2 Lite measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Nova 2 Lite | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
DeepSeek V3 0324 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
DeepSeek V3 0324 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
DeepSeek V3 0324 costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Amazon Nova 2 Lite | DeepSeek V3 0324 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Amazon | DeepSeek |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | December 2, 2025 | March 24, 2025 |
| Context window | 1M | 164K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.30 | $0.27 |
| Output $/Mtok | $2.50 | $1.07 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Nova 2 Lite better than DeepSeek V3 0324 for coding?
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Nova 2 Lite for a larger context window (1M against 164K tokens).
Which is cheaper, Nova 2 Lite or DeepSeek V3 0324?
Nova 2 Lite costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; DeepSeek V3 0324 costs $0.27 and $1.07. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Nova 2 Lite or DeepSeek V3 0324?
Nova 2 Lite, with 1M tokens against 164K.
How many benchmarks is the Nova 2 Lite vs DeepSeek V3 0324 comparison based on?
2 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Nova 2 Lite's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and DeepSeek V3 0324's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.