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.

Amazon Nova Pro Amazon

31.0

Rank #281 Confirmed

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

26.2

Rank #338 Confirmed

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 and Ministral 3B specifications
Amazon Nova ProMinistral 3B
ProviderAmazonMistral AI
Noometry Index31.026.2
Released2024-12-032024-10-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window300K131K
Max output10K262K
Input $ / M tokens$0.80$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$3.20$0.10
Results tracked386

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Amazon Nova Pro: 35.1 (#229), Ministral 3B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProMinistral 3B
LiveBench Coding38.1%—
LMArena Coding1270—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Pro: 16.7 (#147), Ministral 3B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProMinistral 3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard25%—
TheAgentCompany1.7%—

Reasoning Amazon Nova Pro leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 20.0 (#243), Ministral 3B: 18.4 (#282)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProMinistral 3B
Epoch Capabilities Index123.8118.1
LiveBench Reasoning32.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1246—
DTBench—51.7%
LiveBench Data Analysis48.3%—
LMCA—5.5%
LiveBench43.5%—

Math Amazon Nova Pro leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 28.5 (#243), Ministral 3B: 26.6 (#258)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProMinistral 3B
Omni-MATH24.2%—
LiveBench Math38%—
LMArena Math1252—
MATH Level 5—14.4%

Knowledge Amazon Nova Pro leads

Amazon Nova Pro: 27.4 (#250), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#302)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProMinistral 3B
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.1%7.3%
GPQA Diamond—25.3%
Humanity's Last Exam4.4%—
MMLU-Pro67.3%—
Confabulations30.1%—
GPQA (HELM)44.6%—
LMArena Expert1211—
MMLU82%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Pro: 25.0 (#126), Ministral 3B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProMinistral 3B
LMArena Vision980—

Multilingual Not comparable

Amazon Nova Pro: 39.7 (#223), Ministral 3B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProMinistral 3B
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), Ministral 3B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProMinistral 3B
LiveBench Instruction Following67.1%—
IFEval81.5%—
LMArena Instruction Following1235—

Long Context Not comparable

Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#205), Ministral 3B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProMinistral 3B
LMArena Longer Query1255—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Amazon Nova Pro: 43.9 (#226), Ministral 3B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova ProMinistral 3B
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 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.

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