# Amazon Nova Lite vs Mistral Large

> Amazon Nova Lite and Mistral Large score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 31.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-mistral-large
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 32

## Summary

- They share 32 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral Large in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 27.8 to 18.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Coding: 27.5% for Amazon Nova Lite and 47.1% for Mistral Large.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Mistral Large.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 131K.
- Mistral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 31.9 |
| Rank | 265 | 263 |
| Context | 300K | 131K |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | $2 |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | $6 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270)
- Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | 47.1% |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1277 |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | 264.7 |
| SciCode | — | 36.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 30% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 62.2% |
| MBPP+ | — | 59.5% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Lite: —
- Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 38.4% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260)
- Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | 43.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1257 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | 50.1% |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | 48.4% |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 65.1% |
| LMCA | — | 16.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 128.52 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.1 |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247)
- Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | 28.1% |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | 42.5% |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1262 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 8.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 50.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259)
- Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | 59.9% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | 4.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | 43.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1232 |
| MMLU | 77% | 80% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 51.3% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 21.4% |

## Multimodal

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

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232)
- Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1237 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1240 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1325 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1254 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1188 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1202 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1257 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1268 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255)
- Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | 67.9% |
| IFEval | 77.6% | 87.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1249 |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217)
- Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1261 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237)
- Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1266 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1243 |
| WildBench | 75% | 80.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1260 |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | 39.4% |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 69% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 985 |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Mistral Large?

Amazon Nova Lite and Mistral Large score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 31.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Mistral Large?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Mistral Large lists at $2 and $6.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or Mistral Large better for coding?

Mistral Large scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.3 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 131K.

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

32 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.