# Amazon Nova Lite vs Mistral Medium 3.1

> Amazon Nova Lite and Mistral Medium 3.1 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-medium-3-1
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium 3.1 leads 55.5 to 42.1.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $2 for Mistral Medium 3.1.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 131K.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 31.9 |
| Rank | 265 | 266 |
| Context | 300K | 131K |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | $0.40 |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | $2 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 10.6 (#341)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 6.5% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 20.3% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| 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)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| 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)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 55.5 (#145)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1476 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Mistral Medium 3.1?

Amazon Nova Lite and Mistral Medium 3.1 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 Medium 3.1?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.1 lists at $0.40 and $2.

### Which has the bigger context window?

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

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Mistral Medium 3.1 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.1 has 3.