Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Mistral Small 3
Amazon Nova Micro and Mistral Small 3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral Small 3 in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 26.9 to 16.3.
- Mistral Small 3 is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.08 per million input/output tokens, against $0.035 / $0.14 for Amazon Nova Micro.
- Amazon Nova Micro accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 33K.
- Mistral Small 3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Small 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 31.2 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2025-01-30 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 33K |
| Max output | 10K | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | $0.05 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | $0.08 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 24 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Small 3 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Mistral Small 3: 36.5 (#207)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1246 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45.3% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 50.4% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Mistral Small 3: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning Mistral Small 3 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Mistral Small 3: 18.9 (#273)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1233 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 127.07 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Mistral Small 3: 16.3 (#295)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1240 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 6.7% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
Knowledge Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Mistral Small 3: 25.1 (#263)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1202 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 25.2% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multilingual Too close to call
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Mistral Small 3: 37.3 (#236)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1198 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1204 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1203 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1211 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1111 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1188 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1216 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |
Instruction Following Mistral Small 3 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Mistral Small 3: 63.7 (#229)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1214 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
Long Context Mistral Small 3 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Mistral Small 3: 37.8 (#211)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1246 |
Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Mistral Small 3: 32.2 (#280)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1234 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1195 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1217 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 707 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Mistral Small 3?
Amazon Nova Micro and Mistral Small 3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Mistral Small 3?
Mistral Small 3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.08 per million output tokens; Amazon Nova Micro lists at $0.035 and $0.14.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Mistral Small 3 better for coding?
Mistral Small 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.5 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Amazon Nova Micro does, with 128K tokens against 33K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Mistral Small 3 share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3 has 24.