# Amazon Nova Lite vs Mistral Small 3.2

> Amazon Nova Lite and Mistral Small 3.2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 31.2), 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-3-2
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $0.0938 / $0.25 for Mistral Small 3.2.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 256K.
- Mistral Small 3.2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 31.2 |
| Rank | 265 | 280 |
| Context | 300K | 256K |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | $0.0938 |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | $0.25 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270)
- Mistral Small 3.2: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260)
- Mistral Small 3.2: 18.1 (#287)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 40.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 131.74 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247)
- Mistral Small 3.2: 26.3 (#260)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 30.3% |
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259)
- Mistral Small 3.2: 26.7 (#256)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 49.1% |
| 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 Small 3.2: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232)
- Mistral Small 3.2: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Small 3.2: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217)
- Mistral Small 3.2: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237)
- Mistral Small 3.2: 45.0 (#224)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1255 |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Mistral Small 3.2?

Amazon Nova Lite and Mistral Small 3.2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Mistral Small 3.2?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Mistral Small 3.2 lists at $0.0938 and $0.25.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 256K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Mistral Small 3.2 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.