# Amazon Nova Lite vs MiniMax-M2.7

> MiniMax-M2.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 5.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when MiniMax-M2.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-minimax-m2-7
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 19

## Summary

- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 1 category and MiniMax-M2.7 in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where MiniMax-M2.7 leads 58.9 to 42.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Vectara Hallucination Rate: 6.1% for Amazon Nova Lite and 12.9% for MiniMax-M2.7.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $1.20 for MiniMax-M2.7.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 205K.
- MiniMax-M2.7 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | MiniMax |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 37.7 |
| Rank | 265 | 196 |
| Context | 300K | 205K |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | $0.30 |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | $1.20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270)
- MiniMax-M2.7: 41.8 (#120)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1454 |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | 599.25 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1398 |
| SciCode | — | 47% |
| WeirdML | — | 37% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Lite: —
- MiniMax-M2.7: 25.1 (#111)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 45.1% |
| ExploitBench | — | 13.3% |
| GBAEval | — | 0% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260)
- MiniMax-M2.7: 19.7 (#253)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1422 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 24.7% |
| CritPt | — | 0.6% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 39.3% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 145.85 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247)
- MiniMax-M2.7: 25.9 (#263)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1420 |
| ProofBench | — | 3% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259)
- MiniMax-M2.7: 37.7 (#152)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | 12.9% |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1444 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123)
- MiniMax-M2.7: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232)
- MiniMax-M2.7: 50.3 (#123)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1382 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1441 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1421 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1398 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1262 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1313 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1383 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1403 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255)
- MiniMax-M2.7: 74.1 (#103)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1405 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217)
- MiniMax-M2.7: 43.3 (#99)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1419 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237)
- MiniMax-M2.7: 58.9 (#112)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | MiniMax-M2.7 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1405 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1354 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1412 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than MiniMax-M2.7?

MiniMax-M2.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 5.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when MiniMax-M2.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or MiniMax-M2.7?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; MiniMax-M2.7 lists at $0.30 and $1.20.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or MiniMax-M2.7 better for coding?

MiniMax-M2.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.8 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 205K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and MiniMax-M2.7 share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.7 has 30.