Model comparison
Amazon Nova Pro vs Ministral 3B
Amazon Nova Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.0 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 14× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Amazon Nova Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 3 categories and Ministral 3B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Amazon Nova Pro leads 27.4 to 10.4.
- Ministral 3B is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.10 per million input/output tokens, against $0.80 / $3.20 for Amazon Nova Pro.
- Amazon Nova Pro accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 131K.
- Ministral 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Pro | Ministral 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 31.0 | 26.2 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-10-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | 131K |
| Max output | 10K | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.80 | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $3.20 | $0.10 |
| Results tracked | 38 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 35.1 (#229), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 38.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1270 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 16.7 (#147), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 25% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 1.7% | — |
Reasoning Amazon Nova Pro leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 20.0 (#243), Ministral 3B: 18.4 (#282)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 123.8 | 118.1 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 32.6% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | — |
| DTBench | — | 51.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.3% | — |
| LMCA | — | 5.5% |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |
Math Amazon Nova Pro leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 28.5 (#243), Ministral 3B: 26.6 (#258)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 24.2% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 38% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1252 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 14.4% |
Knowledge Amazon Nova Pro leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 27.4 (#250), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#302)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | 7.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 25.3% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.4% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 30.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 44.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1211 | — |
| MMLU | 82% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 25.0 (#126), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 980 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 39.7 (#223), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1234 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1244 | — |
| LMArena French | 1271 | — |
| LMArena German | 1243 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1200 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1203 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1240 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1182 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 64.9 (#226), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.1% | — |
| IFEval | 81.5% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1235 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#205), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1255 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 43.9 (#226), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1259 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1212 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 60.5% | — |
| WildBench | 77.7% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1246 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 37% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Pro better than Ministral 3B?
Amazon Nova Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.0 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 14× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Amazon Nova Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro or Ministral 3B?
Ministral 3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens; Amazon Nova Pro lists at $0.80 and $3.20.
Which has the bigger context window?
Amazon Nova Pro does, with 300K tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Pro and Ministral 3B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.