Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Ministral 3B
Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 2.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Amazon Nova Lite's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Ministral 3B in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 26.0 to 10.4.
- Ministral 3B is cheaper at $0.04 / $0.04 per million input/output tokens, against $0.06 / $0.24 for Amazon Nova Lite.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 128K.
- Ministral 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Ministral 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 31.4 | 25.6 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-10-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | 128K |
| Max output | 10K | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | $0.04 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | $0.04 |
| Results tracked | 34 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.0 (#266), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Amazon Nova Lite: 18.5 (#257), Ministral 3B: 17.7 (#278)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | — |
| DTBench | — | 51.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LMCA | — | 5.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.08 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
Math Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.8 (#243), Ministral 3B: 24.5 (#257)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 14.4% |
Knowledge Amazon Nova Lite leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.0 (#254), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#297)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | 7.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 25.3% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.0 (#118), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.2 (#227), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | — |
| LMArena French | 1237 | — |
| LMArena German | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.6 (#250), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#212), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.3 (#232), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Ministral 3B?
Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 2.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Amazon Nova Lite's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Ministral 3B?
Ministral 3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.04 per million output tokens; Amazon Nova Lite lists at $0.06 and $0.24.
Which has the bigger context window?
Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Ministral 3B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.