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Model comparison

Amazon Nova Lite vs Mixtral 8x7B

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 8x7B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #334 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 7 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 26.3 to 11.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 60% for Amazon Nova Lite and 33.5% for Mixtral 8x7B.
  • Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $0.70 for Mixtral 8x7B.
  • Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 32K.
  • Mixtral 8x7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova LiteMixtral 8x7B
ProviderAmazonMistral AI
Noometry Index31.927.1
Released2024-12-032023-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window300K32K
Max output10K32K
Input $ / M tokens$0.06$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$0.24$0.70
Results tracked3438

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Coding12391126
LiveBench Coding27.5%—
ALE-Bench236.25—
HumanEval+—39.6%
MBPP+—49.7%

Reasoning Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Hard Prompts12201115
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%—
DTBench—49.6%
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%—
Adversarial NLI—55.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—118.47
ForecastBench—56.3
HellaSwag—86.7%
LiveBench36.4%—
PIQA—83.6%
WinoGrande—77.2%

Math Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMixtral 8x7B
Omni-MATH23.3%10.5%
LMArena Math12271147
LiveBench Math36.7%—
MATH Level 5—10%
GSM8K—74.4%

Knowledge Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMixtral 8x7B
MMLU-Pro60%33.5%
GPQA (HELM)39.7%29.6%
LMArena Expert12011088
MMLU77%70.6%
GPQA Diamond—30.6%
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—87.3%
OpenBookQA—85.8%
TriviaQA—82.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Mixtral 8x7B: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Vision990—

Multilingual Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Non-English12081077
LMArena Chinese12251055
LMArena French12371166
LMArena German12291114
LMArena Japanese1153931
LMArena Korean1153968
LMArena Russian12161090
LMArena Spanish12261111

Instruction Following Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMixtral 8x7B
IFEval77.6%57.5%
LMArena Instruction Following12051109
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%—

Long Context Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Longer Query12341103

Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Lite leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Text12291132
LMArena Creative Writing11971109
WildBench75%67.3%
LMArena Multi-Turn11991115
LiveBench Language25.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Mixtral 8x7B?

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 8x7B?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x7B lists at $0.70 and $0.70.

Is Amazon Nova Lite or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (32.5 vs 32.8); test both on your own repository before choosing.

Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 32K.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Mixtral 8x7B share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.

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