# Amazon Nova Lite vs Mistral 7B

> Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-mistral-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 27.8 to 8.1.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $0.25 for Mistral 7B.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 8K.
- Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 23.0 |
| Rank | 265 | 351 |
| Context | 300K | 8K |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | $0.25 |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | $0.25 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270)
- Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1082 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 19.5% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.3% |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 36% |
| MBPP+ | — | 42.1% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260)
- Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1067 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| DTBench | — | 42.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 56.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 112.21 |
| HellaSwag | — | 81% |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.3% |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247)
- Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1085 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 0.3% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 3.7% |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259)
- Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1036 |
| MMLU | 77% | 62.5% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 15.2% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 87.4% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 79.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 75.2% |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123)
- Mistral 7B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232)
- Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1009 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1037 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 878 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1018 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1026 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255)
- Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1060 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217)
- Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1060 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237)
- Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1062 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Mistral 7B?

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Mistral 7B?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Mistral 7B lists at $0.25 and $0.25.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or Mistral 7B better for coding?

Amazon Nova Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.5 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 8K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Mistral 7B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.