Noometry

Model comparison

Amazon Nova Micro vs Ministral 3B

Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.4 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Micro Amazon

30.4

Rank #294 Confirmed

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

26.2

Rank #338 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 2 categories and Ministral 3B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 29.6 to 10.4.
  • Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.10 / $0.10 for Ministral 3B.
  • Ministral 3B accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.
  • Ministral 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova MicroMinistral 3B
ProviderAmazonMistral AI
Noometry Index30.426.2
Released2024-12-032024-10-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K131K
Max output10K262K
Input $ / M tokens$0.035$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$0.14$0.10
Results tracked326

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroMinistral 3B
LiveBench Coding20.2%—
LMArena Coding1218—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroMinistral 3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard22.3%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Ministral 3B: 18.4 (#282)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroMinistral 3B
LiveBench Reasoning25.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1191—
DTBench—51.7%
LiveBench Data Analysis34%—
LMCA—5.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—118.1
LiveBench29.6%—

Math Too close to call

Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Ministral 3B: 26.6 (#258)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroMinistral 3B
Omni-MATH21.4%—
LiveBench Math34.5%—
LMArena Math1206—
MATH Level 5—14.4%

Knowledge Amazon Nova Micro leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#302)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroMinistral 3B
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.5%7.3%
GPQA Diamond—25.3%
MMLU-Pro51.1%—
GPQA (HELM)38.3%—
LMArena Expert1184—
MMLU70.8%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroMinistral 3B
LMArena Non-English1186—
LMArena Chinese1209—
LMArena French1238—
LMArena German1192—
LMArena Japanese1154—
LMArena Korean1150—
LMArena Russian1185—
LMArena Spanish1225—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroMinistral 3B
LiveBench Instruction Following48%—
IFEval76%—
LMArena Instruction Following1174—

Long Context Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroMinistral 3B
LMArena Longer Query1205—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroMinistral 3B
LMArena Text1208—
LMArena Creative Writing1172—
WildBench74.3%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1178—
LiveBench Language15.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Ministral 3B?

Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.4 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Ministral 3B?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Ministral 3B lists at $0.10 and $0.10.

Which has the bigger context window?

Ministral 3B does, with 131K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Ministral 3B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.

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