Noometry

Model comparison

Amazon Nova Lite vs Mixtral 8x22B

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Lite Amazon

31.9

Rank #265 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x22B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #333 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 7 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 26.3 to 15.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 60% for Amazon Nova Lite and 46% for Mixtral 8x22B.
  • Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Mixtral 8x22B.
  • Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 64K.
  • Mixtral 8x22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova LiteMixtral 8x22B
ProviderAmazonMistral AI
Noometry Index31.927.1
Released2024-12-032024-04-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window300K64K
Max output10K64K
Input $ / M tokens$0.06$2
Output $ / M tokens$0.24$6
Results tracked3434

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Category by category

Coding Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Coding12391166
WeirdML—3.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct—40.6%
LiveBench Coding27.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete—50.2%
ALE-Bench236.25—
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—64.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMixtral 8x22B
Cybench—7.5%

Reasoning Too close to call

Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Hard Prompts12201150
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%—
DTBench—55.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—122.03
ForecastBench—56.3
LiveBench36.4%—

Math Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMixtral 8x22B
Omni-MATH23.3%16.3%
LMArena Math12271184
LiveBench Math36.7%—
MATH Level 5—24.2%

Knowledge Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMixtral 8x22B
MMLU-Pro60%46%
GPQA (HELM)39.7%33.4%
LMArena Expert12011113
MMLU77%77.8%
GPQA Diamond—34.1%
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Mixtral 8x22B: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Vision990—

Multilingual Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Non-English12081128
LMArena Chinese12251116
LMArena French12371166
LMArena German12291141
LMArena Japanese11531037
LMArena Korean11531057
LMArena Russian12161158
LMArena Spanish12261151

Instruction Following Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMixtral 8x22B
IFEval77.6%72.4%
LMArena Instruction Following12051147
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%—

Long Context Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Longer Query12341144

Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Text12291162
LMArena Creative Writing11971141
WildBench75%71.1%
LMArena Multi-Turn11991130
LiveBench Language25.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Mixtral 8x22B?

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Mixtral 8x22B?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x22B lists at $2 and $6.

Is Amazon Nova Lite or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?

Amazon Nova Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.5 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 64K.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Mixtral 8x22B share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.

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