Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Devstral Small 2505
Devstral Small 2505 is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.3 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 2.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Devstral Small 2505's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- The widest gap is in coding, where Devstral Small 2505 leads 38.9 to 30.5.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.10 / $0.30 for Devstral Small 2505.
- Devstral Small 2505 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Devstral Small 2505 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 34.3 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2025-05-07 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 128K |
| Max output | 10K | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | $0.30 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 4 |
Sponsored placements are available on pages like this one. Advertise on Noometry
Category by category
Coding Devstral Small 2505 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Devstral Small 2505: 38.9 (#166)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Devstral Small 2505 |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 56.4% |
| SciCode | — | 28.8% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Devstral Small 2505: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Devstral Small 2505 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning Devstral Small 2505 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Devstral Small 2505: 19.7 (#252)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Devstral Small 2505 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.7% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Devstral Small 2505: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Devstral Small 2505 |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Devstral Small 2505: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Devstral Small 2505 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Devstral Small 2505: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Devstral Small 2505 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | — |
| LMArena French | 1238 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Devstral Small 2505: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Devstral Small 2505 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Devstral Small 2505: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Devstral Small 2505 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Devstral Small 2505: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Devstral Small 2505 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | — |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Devstral Small 2505?
Devstral Small 2505 is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.3 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 2.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Devstral Small 2505's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Devstral Small 2505?
Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Devstral Small 2505 lists at $0.10 and $0.30.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Devstral Small 2505 better for coding?
Devstral Small 2505 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.9 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 128K tokens.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Devstral Small 2505 share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Devstral Small 2505 has 4.