Noometry

Model comparison

Amazon Nova Lite vs Mistral Small 3.1

Amazon Nova Lite and Mistral Small 3.1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 31.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Lite Amazon

31.9

Rank #265 Confirmed

Mistral Small 3.1 Mistral AI

31.7

Rank #269 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral Small 3.1 in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 27.8 to 14.7.
  • Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.35 / $0.56 for Mistral Small 3.1.
  • Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 128K.
  • Mistral Small 3.1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova LiteMistral Small 3.1
ProviderAmazonMistral AI
Noometry Index31.931.7
Released2024-12-032025-03-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window300K128K
Max output10K102K
Input $ / M tokens$0.06$0.35
Output $ / M tokens$0.24$0.56
Results tracked3428

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Category by category

Coding Mistral Small 3.1 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Mistral Small 3.1: 38.3 (#179)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Coding12391309
LiveBench Coding27.5%—
ALE-Bench236.25—

Reasoning Too close to call

Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Mistral Small 3.1: 19.7 (#254)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Hard Prompts12201278
Chess Puzzles—1%
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—127.48
LiveBench36.4%—

Math Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Mistral Small 3.1: 14.7 (#301)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMistral Small 3.1
Omni-MATH23.3%24.8%
LMArena Math12271262
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—3.9%
LiveBench Math36.7%—

Knowledge Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Mistral Small 3.1: 22.6 (#271)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMistral Small 3.1
MMLU-Pro60%61%
GPQA (HELM)39.7%39.2%
LMArena Expert12011257
GPQA Diamond—41.9%
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
MMLU77%—

Multimodal Mistral Small 3.1 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Mistral Small 3.1: 33.2 (#99)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Vision9901136

Multilingual Mistral Small 3.1 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Mistral Small 3.1: 41.2 (#209)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Non-English12081255
LMArena Chinese12251253
LMArena French12371273
LMArena German12291266
LMArena Japanese11531208
LMArena Korean11531206
LMArena Russian12161263
LMArena Spanish12261283

Instruction Following Mistral Small 3.1 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Mistral Small 3.1: 63.6 (#230)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMistral Small 3.1
IFEval77.6%75%
LMArena Instruction Following12051264
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%—

Long Context Mistral Small 3.1 leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Mistral Small 3.1: 39.5 (#178)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Longer Query12341299

Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Mistral Small 3.1: 37.0 (#259)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMistral Small 3.1
LMArena Text12291277
LMArena Creative Writing11971253
WildBench75%78.8%
LMArena Multi-Turn11991270
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—761
LiveBench Language25.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Mistral Small 3.1?

Amazon Nova Lite and Mistral Small 3.1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 31.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Mistral Small 3.1?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Mistral Small 3.1 lists at $0.35 and $0.56.

Is Amazon Nova Lite or Mistral Small 3.1 better for coding?

Mistral Small 3.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.3 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 Mistral Small 3.1 share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.1 has 28.

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