Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct vs Nova Lite 1.0

API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 19 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
32.8 B
Context
32,768
30d
546 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
amazon · B · API-only
Input / 1M
$0.06
Output / 1M
$0.24
AA index
6.7
proprietary · 300K context

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct Nova Lite 1.0
Deployment Open weights · also via API API-only (closed weights)
Parameters 32.8 B n/a — API-only
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM n/a — API-only
Context length 32,768 300,000
Licence apache-2.0 Proprietary
Commercial use Allowed Per API terms
Languages 1 n/a — API-only
Downloads 30d 545,627 n/a — API-only
Downloads all time 13.7 M n/a — API-only
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS n/a — API-only
Gated No n/a — API-only
First seen on the Hub 2024-11-06 n/a — API-only
API input price / 1M tokens $0.66 $0.06
API output price / 1M tokens $1.00 $0.24
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $1.66 $0.30
Cached input / 1M tokens — —
AA Intelligence Index 6.7 6.7
AA Coding Index — —
AA Agentic Index — —
Max output tokens 29,491 5,120
API providers 1 1
Tool calling No Yes
Reasoning mode No No

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct $1.66
Nova Lite 1.0 $0.30

Nova Lite 1.0 is 5.5× cheaper at list price.

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct · fp16 77.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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