# Amazon Nova Lite vs Mistral Medium

> Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 29× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-mistral-medium
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 21

## Summary

- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Medium in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium leads 60.0 to 42.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Vectara Hallucination Rate: 6.1% for Amazon Nova Lite and 22.7% for Mistral Medium.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 262K.
- Mistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 36.3 |
| Rank | 265 | 218 |
| Context | 300K | 262K |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | $7.50 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270)
- Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1434 |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | 763.98 |
| FrontierCode | — | 8% |
| SciCode | — | 40.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Lite: —
- Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.7% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260)
- Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1426 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 50% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| DTBench | — | 75.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LMCA | — | 26.1% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 26.9% |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247)
- Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1408 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 32.2% |
| ProofBench | — | 9% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 81.6% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259)
- Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | 4.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | 22.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1408 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 59.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123)
- Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | 1172 |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232)
- Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1408 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1447 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1459 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1432 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1378 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1380 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1433 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255)
- Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1398 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217)
- Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1406 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237)
- Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1424 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1391 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1418 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 77.3% |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |

## FAQ

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

Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Lite costs 29× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

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

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

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

Mistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.2 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 262K.

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

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.