# Amazon Nova Lite vs Mixtral 8x22B

> Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 26.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-lite-vs-mixtral-8x22b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 23

## Summary

- They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 7 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Amazon Nova Lite leads 26.0 to 15.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 60% for Amazon Nova Lite and 46% for Mixtral 8x22B.
- Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.24 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Mixtral 8x22B.
- Amazon Nova Lite accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 64K.
- Mixtral 8x22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Lite | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 31.4 | 26.7 |
| Rank | 262 | 330 |
| Context | 300K | 64K |
| Input $/M | $0.06 | $2 |
| Output $/M | $0.24 | $6 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Lite: 32.0 (#266)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 23.8 (#324)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | 1166 |
| WeirdML | — | 3.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 40.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 50.2% |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 72% |
| MBPP+ | — | 64.3% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Lite: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 22.8 (#119)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Lite: 18.5 (#257)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 19.1 (#246)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1150 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| DTBench | — | 55.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 122 |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.8 (#243)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 21.2 (#271)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | 16.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | 1184 |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 24.2% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Lite: 26.0 (#254)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#288)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | 46% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | 33.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | 1113 |
| MMLU | 77% | 77.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 34.1% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Lite: 25.0 (#118)
- Mixtral 8x22B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Lite: 38.2 (#227)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 32.9 (#250)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1128 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1116 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1165 |
| LMArena German | 1229 | 1141 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | 1037 |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | 1056 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1158 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1150 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Lite: 59.6 (#250)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 57.9 (#261)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 77.6% | 72.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1147 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#212)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 34.6 (#242)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | 1144 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Lite: 42.3 (#232)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 37.1 (#257)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1162 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | 1141 |
| WildBench | 75% | 71.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | 1130 |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Mixtral 8x22B?

Amazon Nova Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 26.7 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Lite or Mixtral 8x22B?

Amazon Nova Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x22B lists at $2 and $6.

### Is Amazon Nova Lite or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?

Amazon Nova Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.0 versus 23.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Lite does, with 300K tokens against 64K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Mixtral 8x22B share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.