Noometry

Model comparison

Amazon Nova Micro vs Mistral Small 3.2

Amazon Nova Micro and Mistral Small 3.2 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.

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Amazon Nova Micro Amazon

30.4

Rank #294 Confirmed

Mistral Small 3.2 Mistral AI

31.2

Rank #280 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Small 3.2 leads 45.0 to 39.5.
  • Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.0938 / $0.25 for Mistral Small 3.2.
  • Mistral Small 3.2 accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 128K.
  • Mistral Small 3.2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova MicroMistral Small 3.2
ProviderAmazonMistral AI
Noometry Index30.431.2
Released2024-12-032025-06-20
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K256K
Max output10K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.035$0.0938
Output $ / M tokens$0.14$0.25
Results tracked326

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroMistral Small 3.2
LiveBench Coding20.2%—
LMArena Coding1218—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroMistral Small 3.2
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard22.3%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Mistral Small 3.2: 18.1 (#287)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroMistral Small 3.2
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.4%
Chess Puzzles—1%
LiveBench Reasoning25.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1191—
LiveBench Data Analysis34%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—131.74
LiveBench29.6%—

Math Too close to call

Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.3 (#260)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroMistral Small 3.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—30.3%
Omni-MATH21.4%—
LiveBench Math34.5%—
LMArena Math1206—

Knowledge Amazon Nova Micro leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.7 (#256)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroMistral Small 3.2
GPQA Diamond—49.1%
MMLU-Pro51.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.5%—
GPQA (HELM)38.3%—
LMArena Expert1184—
MMLU70.8%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroMistral Small 3.2
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), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroMistral Small 3.2
LiveBench Instruction Following48%—
IFEval76%—
LMArena Instruction Following1174—

Long Context Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Longer Query1205—

Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3.2 leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Mistral Small 3.2: 45.0 (#224)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Text1208—
LMArena Creative Writing1172—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1255
WildBench74.3%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1178—
LiveBench Language15.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Mistral Small 3.2?

Amazon Nova Micro and Mistral Small 3.2 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 3.2?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Mistral Small 3.2 lists at $0.0938 and $0.25.

Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Small 3.2 does, with 256K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Mistral Small 3.2 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.

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