Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Magistral Small
Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.
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Mistral AISummary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 19.3 to 6.8.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $1.50 for Magistral Small.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 128K.
- Magistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 30.2 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2025-06-10 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | 128K |
| Max output | 10K | 40K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | $1.50 |
| Results tracked | 34 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Small leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 35.2% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
Reasoning Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 6.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 5% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 3% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | — |
| DTBench | — | 61.3% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 133.19 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
Math Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 30% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | — |
Knowledge Magistral Small leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.1% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | — |
| LMArena French | 1237 | — |
| LMArena German | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | — |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Magistral Small?
Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Magistral Small?
Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Magistral Small lists at $0.50 and $1.50.
Is Amazon Nova Lite or Magistral Small better for coding?
Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Magistral Small share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Small has 10.