Noometry

Model comparison

Mixtral 8x7B vs Nova 2 Lite

Nova 2 Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.0 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Mixtral 8x7B Mistral AI

26.8

Rank #328 Confirmed

Nova 2 Lite Amazon

39.0

Rank #161 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Mixtral 8x7B scores higher in 0 categories and Nova 2 Lite in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Nova 2 Lite leads 42.5 to 11.0.
  • Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper at $0.70 / $0.70 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $2.50 for Nova 2 Lite.
  • Nova 2 Lite accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 32K.
  • Mixtral 8x7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Mixtral 8x7BNova 2 Lite
ProviderMistral AIAmazon
Noometry Index26.839.0
Released2023-12-112025-12-01
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window32K1M
Max output32K64K
Input $ / M tokens$0.70$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$0.70$2.50
Results tracked3819

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Category by category

Coding Nova 2 Lite leads

Mixtral 8x7B: 32.2 (#265), Nova 2 Lite: 40.1 (#131)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BNova 2 Lite
LMArena Coding11271386
HumanEval+39.6%—
MBPP+49.7%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mixtral 8x7B: —, Nova 2 Lite: 23.9 (#114)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BNova 2 Lite
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—27.1%

Reasoning Nova 2 Lite leads

Mixtral 8x7B: 17.4 (#283), Nova 2 Lite: 26.4 (#120)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BNova 2 Lite
LMArena Hard Prompts11151364
DTBench49.6%—
Adversarial NLI55.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index118.38—
ForecastBench56.3—
HellaSwag86.7%—
PIQA83.6%—
WinoGrande77.2%—

Math Nova 2 Lite leads

Mixtral 8x7B: 17.2 (#284), Nova 2 Lite: 34.8 (#154)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BNova 2 Lite
LMArena Math11471359
Omni-MATH10.5%—
MATH Level 510%—
GSM8K74.4%—

Knowledge Nova 2 Lite leads

Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#296), Nova 2 Lite: 42.5 (#88)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BNova 2 Lite
LMArena Expert10881360
GPQA Diamond30.6%—
MMLU-Pro33.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.1%
GPQA (HELM)29.6%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge87.3%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA85.8%—
TriviaQA82.2%—

Multilingual Nova 2 Lite leads

Mixtral 8x7B: 29.8 (#261), Nova 2 Lite: 47.3 (#148)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BNova 2 Lite
LMArena Non-English10771337
LMArena Chinese10551364
LMArena French11651381
LMArena German11141343
LMArena Japanese9311273
LMArena Korean9681284
LMArena Russian10901343
LMArena Spanish11101372

Instruction Following Nova 2 Lite leads

Mixtral 8x7B: 51.2 (#292), Nova 2 Lite: 70.7 (#156)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BNova 2 Lite
LMArena Instruction Following11101335
IFEval57.5%—

Long Context Nova 2 Lite leads

Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#255), Nova 2 Lite: 40.6 (#145)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BNova 2 Lite
LMArena Longer Query11031335

Writing & Preference Nova 2 Lite leads

Mixtral 8x7B: 34.4 (#265), Nova 2 Lite: 54.1 (#150)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BNova 2 Lite
LMArena Text11321362
LMArena Creative Writing11091291
LMArena Multi-Turn11151338
WildBench67.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mixtral 8x7B better than Nova 2 Lite?

Nova 2 Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.0 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Mixtral 8x7B or Nova 2 Lite?

Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; Nova 2 Lite lists at $0.30 and $2.50.

Is Mixtral 8x7B or Nova 2 Lite better for coding?

Nova 2 Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.1 versus 32.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Nova 2 Lite does, with 1M tokens against 32K.

How many benchmarks do Mixtral 8x7B and Nova 2 Lite share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mixtral 8x7B has 38 scored results on Noometry and Nova 2 Lite has 19.

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