Model comparison
Mistral 7B vs Nova 2 Lite
Nova 2 Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.7 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 3.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Nova 2 Lite's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral 7B scores higher in 0 categories and Nova 2 Lite in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Nova 2 Lite leads 43.0 to 7.4.
- Mistral 7B is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $2.50 for Nova 2 Lite.
- Nova 2 Lite accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 8K.
- Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mistral 7B | Nova 2 Lite | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Amazon |
| Noometry Index | 23.0 | 39.7 |
| Released | 2023-09-27 | 2025-12-01 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 8K | 1M |
| Max output | 8K | 64K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.25 | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.25 | $2.50 |
| Results tracked | 37 | 19 |
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Category by category
Coding Nova 2 Lite leads
Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326), Nova 2 Lite: 40.7 (#134)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1082 | 1385 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 19.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 27.3% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 36% | — |
| MBPP+ | 42.1% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral 7B: —, Nova 2 Lite: 24.1 (#121)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 27.1% |
Reasoning Nova 2 Lite leads
Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336), Nova 2 Lite: 27.5 (#118)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1067 | 1364 |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| DTBench | 42.5% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | 47.1% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 56.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.21 | — |
| HellaSwag | 81% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.3% | — |
Math Nova 2 Lite leads
Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325), Nova 2 Lite: 37.5 (#156)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1085 | 1359 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 3.7% | — |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Nova 2 Lite leads
Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311), Nova 2 Lite: 43.0 (#94)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1036 | 1358 |
| GPQA Diamond | 15.2% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.1% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.6% | — |
| BoolQ | 87.4% | — |
| MMLU | 62.5% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 79.8% | — |
| TriviaQA | 75.2% | — |
Multilingual Nova 2 Lite leads
Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283), Nova 2 Lite: 47.1 (#153)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1012 | 1337 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1009 | 1364 |
| LMArena French | 1037 | 1381 |
| LMArena German | 987 | 1343 |
| LMArena Japanese | 878 | 1271 |
| LMArena Russian | 1018 | 1343 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1026 | 1373 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1284 |
Instruction Following Nova 2 Lite leads
Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280), Nova 2 Lite: 70.5 (#161)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1060 | 1335 |
Long Context Nova 2 Lite leads
Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271), Nova 2 Lite: 40.6 (#150)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1060 | 1335 |
Writing & Preference Nova 2 Lite leads
Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286), Nova 2 Lite: 53.9 (#154)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1090 | 1362 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1068 | 1291 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1062 | 1338 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral 7B better than Nova 2 Lite?
Nova 2 Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.7 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 3.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Nova 2 Lite's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Mistral 7B or Nova 2 Lite?
Mistral 7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Nova 2 Lite lists at $0.30 and $2.50.
Is Mistral 7B or Nova 2 Lite better for coding?
Nova 2 Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.7 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Nova 2 Lite does, with 1M tokens against 8K.
How many benchmarks do Mistral 7B and Nova 2 Lite share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral 7B has 37 scored results on Noometry and Nova 2 Lite has 19.