Arctic Instruct is the stronger all-rounder.
Scores updated · 11 tests both models report · How we compare
Where each one wins
Tests won in each of the one area where both have results. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.
Facts rests on a single test.
What it costs
Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.
Every test, side by side
All 11 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.
FactsArctic Instruct
- Vectara HHEM hallucination ratelower is betterArctic Instruct by 1.84.36.1+1.8
Other results10 tests, not counted
Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.
- vectara_answer_rateNova Lite by 37.262.799.9+37.2
- MATHNova Lite by 2651.977.9+26
- GSM8KNova Lite by 17.776.894.5+17.7
- MMLUNova Lite by 11.857.569.3+11.8
- NarrativeQANova Lite by 11.465.376.8+11.4
- vectara_avg_summary_lengthNova Lite by 10.481.491.8+10.4
- OpenBookQANova Lite by 1082.892.8+10
- naturalquestions_closedbookArctic Instruct by 3.83935.2+3.8
- vectara_factual_consistencyArctic Instruct by 1.895.793.9+1.8
- AA IntelligenceNova Lite by 1.35.46.7+1.3
Questions people ask
Which is better, Arctic Instruct or Nova Lite?
Arctic Instruct wins the one area where both have results: facts. Nova Lite wins none.
How do you compare the two?
We use the 11 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 1 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 10 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.