Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Pixtral Large
Pixtral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 49× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Pixtral Large's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
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Mistral AISummary
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 39.5 to 32.9.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Pixtral Large.
- Pixtral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Pixtral Large | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 32.2 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-11-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 128K |
| Max output | 10K | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | $6 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning Pixtral Large leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Pixtral Large: 21.7 (#218)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.8% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: —, Pixtral Large: 30.6 (#111)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1089 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| 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), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | — |
Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Pixtral Large: 32.9 (#278)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 988 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Pixtral Large?
Pixtral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 49× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Pixtral Large's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Pixtral Large?
Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Pixtral Large lists at $2 and $6.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 128K tokens.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Pixtral Large share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral Large has 3.