# Amazon Nova Lite vs Magistral Small

> Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-magistral-small
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 19.3 to 6.8.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $1.50 for Magistral Small.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 128K.
- Magistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 30.2 |
| Rank | 265 | 296 |
| Context | 300K | 128K |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | $0.50 |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | $1.50 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270)
- Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 35.2% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260)
- Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 6.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 5% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 3% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | — |
| DTBench | — | 61.3% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 133.19 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247)
- Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 30% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259)
- Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.1% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123)
- Magistral Small: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232)
- Magistral Small: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | — |
| LMArena French | 1237 | — |
| LMArena German | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255)
- Magistral Small: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217)
- Magistral Small: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237)
- Magistral Small: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | — |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Magistral Small?

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Magistral Small?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Magistral Small lists at $0.50 and $1.50.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or Magistral Small better for coding?

Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 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 Magistral Small share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Small has 10.