Noometry

Model comparison

Mixtral 8x22B vs Nova 2 Lite

Nova 2 Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.7 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Mixtral 8x22B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #333 Confirmed

Nova 2 Lite Amazon

39.7

Rank #161 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Mixtral 8x22B scores higher in 0 categories and Nova 2 Lite in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Nova 2 Lite leads 43.0 to 15.1.
  • Nova 2 Lite is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Mixtral 8x22B.
  • Nova 2 Lite accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 64K.
  • Mixtral 8x22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Mixtral 8x22BNova 2 Lite
ProviderMistral AIAmazon
Noometry Index27.139.7
Released2024-04-172025-12-01
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window64K1M
Max output64K64K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$6$2.50
Results tracked3419

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Category by category

Coding Nova 2 Lite leads

Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329), Nova 2 Lite: 40.7 (#134)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x22BNova 2 Lite
LMArena Coding11661385
WeirdML3.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct40.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete50.2%—
HumanEval+72%—
MBPP+64.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Nova 2 Lite leads

Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127), Nova 2 Lite: 24.1 (#121)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x22BNova 2 Lite
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—27.1%
Cybench7.5%—

Reasoning Nova 2 Lite leads

Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248), Nova 2 Lite: 27.5 (#118)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x22BNova 2 Lite
LMArena Hard Prompts11501364
DTBench55.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index122.03—
ForecastBench56.3—

Math Nova 2 Lite leads

Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275), Nova 2 Lite: 37.5 (#156)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x22BNova 2 Lite
LMArena Math11841359
Omni-MATH16.3%—
MATH Level 524.2%—

Knowledge Nova 2 Lite leads

Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293), Nova 2 Lite: 43.0 (#94)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x22BNova 2 Lite
LMArena Expert11131358
GPQA Diamond34.1%—
MMLU-Pro46%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.1%
GPQA (HELM)33.4%—
MMLU77.8%—

Multilingual Nova 2 Lite leads

Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255), Nova 2 Lite: 47.1 (#153)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x22BNova 2 Lite
LMArena Non-English11281337
LMArena Chinese11161364
LMArena French11661381
LMArena German11411343
LMArena Japanese10371271
LMArena Korean10571284
LMArena Russian11581343
LMArena Spanish11511373

Instruction Following Nova 2 Lite leads

Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266), Nova 2 Lite: 70.5 (#161)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x22BNova 2 Lite
LMArena Instruction Following11471335
IFEval72.4%—

Long Context Nova 2 Lite leads

Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247), Nova 2 Lite: 40.6 (#150)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x22BNova 2 Lite
LMArena Longer Query11441335

Writing & Preference Nova 2 Lite leads

Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262), Nova 2 Lite: 53.9 (#154)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x22BNova 2 Lite
LMArena Text11621362
LMArena Creative Writing11411291
LMArena Multi-Turn11301338
WildBench71.1%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mixtral 8x22B better than Nova 2 Lite?

Nova 2 Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.7 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Mixtral 8x22B or Nova 2 Lite?

Nova 2 Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x22B lists at $2 and $6.

Is Mixtral 8x22B or Nova 2 Lite better for coding?

Nova 2 Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.7 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Nova 2 Lite does, with 1M tokens against 64K.

How many benchmarks do Mixtral 8x22B and Nova 2 Lite share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mixtral 8x22B has 34 scored results on Noometry and Nova 2 Lite has 19.

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