Model comparison

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.

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Amazon Nova Lite Amazon

31.9

Rank #265 Confirmed

Mistral Small 3.2 Mistral AI

31.2

Rank #280 Confirmed

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.

Side by side

Amazon Nova Lite and Mistral Small 3.2 specifications
Amazon Nova LiteMistral Small 3.2
ProviderAmazonMistral AI
Noometry Index31.931.2
Released2024-12-032025-06-20
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window300K256K
Max output10K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.06$0.0938
Output $ / M tokens$0.24$0.25
Results tracked346

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

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

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMistral Small 3.2
LiveBench Coding27.5%—
LMArena Coding1239—
ALE-Bench236.25—

Reasoning Amazon Nova Lite leads

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

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMistral Small 3.2
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.4%
Chess Puzzles—1%
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1220—
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—131.74
LiveBench36.4%—

Math Amazon Nova Lite leads

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

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMistral Small 3.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—30.3%
Omni-MATH23.3%—
LiveBench Math36.7%—
LMArena Math1227—

Knowledge Too close to call

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

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMistral Small 3.2
GPQA Diamond—49.1%
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%—
MMLU-Pro60%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
GPQA (HELM)39.7%—
LMArena Expert1201—
MMLU77%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Vision990—

Multilingual Not comparable

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

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Non-English1208—
LMArena Chinese1225—
LMArena French1237—
LMArena German1229—
LMArena Japanese1153—
LMArena Korean1153—
LMArena Russian1216—
LMArena Spanish1226—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMistral Small 3.2
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%—
IFEval77.6%—
LMArena Instruction Following1205—

Long Context Not comparable

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

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Longer Query1234—

Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3.2 leads

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

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Text1229—
LMArena Creative Writing1197—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1255
WildBench75%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1199—
LiveBench Language25.9%—

Frequently asked questions

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.

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