Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Mistral Medium 3.1
Mistral Medium 3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.5 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 13× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium 3.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
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Mistral AISummary
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium 3.1 leads 55.6 to 39.7.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $2 for Mistral Medium 3.1.
- Mistral Medium 3.1 accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium 3.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 31.5 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | 131K |
| Max output | 10K | 105K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | $2 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.0 (#289), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 21.9 (#125), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 16.7 (#289), Mistral Medium 3.1: 10.1 (#336)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 6.5% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 20.3% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 24.9 (#252), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.2 (#231), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| 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: 36.7 (#234), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | — |
| LMArena French | 1237 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.6 (#267), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#224), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1206 | — |
Writing & Preference Mistral Medium 3.1 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.7 (#242), Mistral Medium 3.1: 55.6 (#140)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1476 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Mistral Medium 3.1?
Mistral Medium 3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.5 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 13× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium 3.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Mistral Medium 3.1?
Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.1 lists at $0.40 and $2.
Which has the bigger context window?
Mistral Medium 3.1 does, with 131K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Mistral Medium 3.1 share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.1 has 3.