# Amazon Nova Lite vs Ministral 8B

> Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-ministral-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 13

## Summary

- They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 6 categories and Ministral 8B in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 26.0 to 12.5.
- Both cost about the same: $0.06 input and $0.24 output per million tokens.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 128K.
- Ministral 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 31.4 | 27.8 |
| Rank | 262 | 321 |
| Context | 300K | 128K |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | $0.10 |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | $0.10 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.0 (#266)
- Ministral 8B: 34.4 (#226)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1202 |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Lite: —
- Ministral 8B: 16.2 (#140)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 11.1% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 18.5 (#257)
- Ministral 8B: 17.7 (#279)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1191 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| DTBench | — | 45.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.8 (#243)
- Ministral 8B: 23.7 (#262)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1188 |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 14.9% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.0 (#254)
- Ministral 8B: 12.5 (#292)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | 7.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1170 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27.1% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.0 (#118)
- Ministral 8B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.2 (#227)
- Ministral 8B: 35.3 (#242)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1165 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1193 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1195 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | — |
| LMArena German | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.6 (#250)
- Ministral 8B: 60.7 (#245)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1161 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#212)
- Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#222)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1212 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.3 (#232)
- Ministral 8B: 39.8 (#241)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1191 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1175 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1166 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Ministral 8B?

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Ministral 8B?

Ministral 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens; Amazon Nova Lite lists at $0.06 and $0.24.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or Ministral 8B better for coding?

Ministral 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 32.0 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 Ministral 8B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.