# Amazon Nova Lite vs Mistral Small 3.1

> Amazon Nova Lite and Mistral Small 3.1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 31.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-mistral-small-3-1
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 23

## Summary

- They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral Small 3.1 in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 27.8 to 14.7.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.35 / $0.56 for Mistral Small 3.1.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 128K.
- Mistral Small 3.1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 31.7 |
| Rank | 265 | 269 |
| Context | 300K | 128K |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | $0.35 |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | $0.56 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 38.3 (#179)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1309 |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 19.7 (#254)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1278 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 127.48 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 14.7 (#301)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | 24.8% |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1262 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 3.9% |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 22.6 (#271)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | 61% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | 39.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1257 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 41.9% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 33.2 (#99)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | 1136 |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 41.2 (#209)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1255 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1253 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1273 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1266 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1208 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1206 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1263 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | 1283 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 63.6 (#230)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 77.6% | 75% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1264 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 39.5 (#178)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1299 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 37.0 (#259)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1277 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1253 |
| WildBench | 75% | 78.8% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1270 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 761 |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |

## FAQ

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

Amazon Nova Lite and Mistral Small 3.1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 31.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Mistral Small 3.1?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Mistral Small 3.1 lists at $0.35 and $0.56.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or Mistral Small 3.1 better for coding?

Mistral Small 3.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.3 versus 32.5 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 Mistral Small 3.1 share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.1 has 28.