Model comparison

Amazon Nova Pro vs Magistral Small

Amazon Nova Pro and Magistral Small score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.0 vs 30.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Pro Amazon

31.0

Rank #281 Confirmed

Magistral Small Mistral AI

30.2

Rank #296 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 2 categories and Magistral Small in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Amazon Nova Pro leads 20.0 to 6.8.
  • Magistral Small is cheaper at $0.50 / $1.50 per million input/output tokens, against $0.80 / $3.20 for Amazon Nova Pro.
  • Amazon Nova Pro accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 128K.
  • Magistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova Pro and Magistral Small specifications
Amazon Nova ProMagistral Small
ProviderAmazonMistral AI
Noometry Index31.030.2
Released2024-12-032025-06-10
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window300K128K
Max output10K40K
Input $ / M tokens$0.80$0.50
Output $ / M tokens$3.20$1.50
Results tracked3810

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Category by category

Coding Magistral Small leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 35.1 (#229), Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProMagistral Small
SciCode—35.2%
LiveBench Coding38.1%—
LMArena Coding1270—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Pro: 16.7 (#147), Magistral Small: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProMagistral Small
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard25%—
TheAgentCompany1.7%—

Reasoning Amazon Nova Pro leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 20.0 (#243), Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProMagistral Small
Epoch Capabilities Index123.8133.19
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—6.3%
ARC-AGI-1—5%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—3%
LiveBench Reasoning32.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1246—
DTBench—61.3%
LiveBench Data Analysis48.3%—
LiveBench43.5%—

Math Amazon Nova Pro leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 28.5 (#243), Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProMagistral Small
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—30%
Omni-MATH24.2%—
LiveBench Math38%—
LMArena Math1252—

Knowledge Magistral Small leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 27.4 (#250), Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProMagistral Small
GPQA Diamond—56.1%
Humanity's Last Exam4.4%—
MMLU-Pro67.3%—
Confabulations30.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.1%—
GPQA (HELM)44.6%—
LMArena Expert1211—
MMLU82%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Pro: 25.0 (#126), Magistral Small: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProMagistral Small
LMArena Vision980—

Multilingual Not comparable

Amazon Nova Pro: 39.7 (#223), Magistral Small: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProMagistral Small
LMArena Non-English1234—
LMArena Chinese1244—
LMArena French1271—
LMArena German1243—
LMArena Japanese1200—
LMArena Korean1203—
LMArena Russian1240—
LMArena Spanish1182—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Amazon Nova Pro: 64.9 (#226), Magistral Small: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProMagistral Small
LiveBench Instruction Following67.1%—
IFEval81.5%—
LMArena Instruction Following1235—

Long Context Not comparable

Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#205), Magistral Small: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProMagistral Small
LMArena Longer Query1255—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Amazon Nova Pro: 43.9 (#226), Magistral Small: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProMagistral Small
LMArena Text1259—
LMArena Creative Writing1212—
Short-Story Creative Writing60.5%—
WildBench77.7%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1246—
LiveBench Language37%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Pro better than Magistral Small?

Amazon Nova Pro and Magistral Small score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.0 vs 30.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro or Magistral Small?

Magistral Small is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens; Amazon Nova Pro lists at $0.80 and $3.20.

Is Amazon Nova Pro or Magistral Small better for coding?

Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 35.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Pro does, with 300K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Pro and Magistral Small share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Small has 10.

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