Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Magistral Medium
Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 26× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Magistral Medium's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 1 category and Magistral Medium in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 19.3 to 8.6.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 262K.
- Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 35.2 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2025-03-17 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | 262K |
| Max output | 10K | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | $5 |
| Results tracked | 34 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Medium leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1319 |
| SciCode | — | 39.2% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
Reasoning Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1267 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 16.2% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 6.1% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
Math Magistral Medium leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1250 |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
Knowledge Magistral Medium leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1223 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Magistral Medium: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |
Multilingual Magistral Medium leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1232 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1227 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1267 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1248 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1175 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1125 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1224 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1271 |
Instruction Following Magistral Medium leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1254 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
Long Context Magistral Medium leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1295 |
Writing & Preference Magistral Medium leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1255 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1245 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1275 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Magistral Medium?
Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 26× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Magistral Medium's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Magistral Medium?
Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Magistral Medium lists at $2 and $5.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Magistral Medium better for coding?
Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Magistral Medium share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.