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Mistral Small 3 24B vs Nova 2 Lite
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Nova 2 Lite supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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Mistral AI
Mistral Small 3 is a 24-billion-parameter open-weight language model from Mistral AI, released in January 2025 as an update to the Mistral Small line with targeted improvements to instruction-following, multilingual reasoning, and structured output quality. Released under Apache 2.0, it was designed for deployment on a single high-VRAM GPU, continuing Mistral's focus on practical efficiency over maximum scale. The model became a widely-used option for teams building internal tooling, customer-facing applications, and local inference pipelines that needed strong general capability without the operational overhead of larger models.
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Amazon
Amazon Nova 2 Lite, released by Amazon Web Services on December 2, 2025, is a fast, cost-efficient reasoning model available on Amazon Bedrock with a 1M token context window enabling extended document, video, and image analysis. It features three extended thinking intensity levels, built-in code interpreter, web grounding tools, and native support for text, image, video, and document input. Nova 2 Lite targets cost-sensitive agentic applications, document analysis pipelines, and real-time workloads requiring multimodal reasoning.
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Mistral Small 3 24B
Mistral AI
2025-01-30
Nova 2 Lite
Amazon
2025-12-02
Performance Metrics
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Provider Availability & Performance
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Mistral Small 3 24B
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Nova 2 Lite
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AWS Bedrock
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Mistral Small 3 24B
Avg Score:0.0%
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Nova 2 Lite
Avg Score:0.0%
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