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Model comparison

Magistral Medium vs Nova Premier 1.0

Nova Premier 1.0 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index. Magistral Medium costs 1.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Nova Premier 1.0's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Magistral Medium Mistral AI

35.2

Rank #227 Confirmed

Nova Premier 1.0 Amazon

38.3

Rank #189 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Magistral Medium scores higher in 1 category and Nova Premier 1.0 in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Nova Premier 1.0 leads 23.0 to 8.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 16.2% for Magistral Medium and 44.8% for Nova Premier 1.0.
  • Magistral Medium is cheaper at $2 / $5 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $12.50 for Nova Premier 1.0.
  • Nova Premier 1.0 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
  • Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Magistral MediumNova Premier 1.0
ProviderMistral AIAmazon
Noometry Index35.238.3
Released2025-03-172025-04-30
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window262K1M
Max output16K10K
Input $ / M tokens$2$2.50
Output $ / M tokens$5$12.50
Results tracked226

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161), Nova Premier 1.0: —

BenchmarkMagistral MediumNova Premier 1.0
SciCode39.2%—
LMArena Coding1319—

Reasoning Nova Premier 1.0 leads

Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348), Nova Premier 1.0: 23.0 (#185)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumNova Premier 1.0
Kagi LLM Benchmark16.2%44.8%
ARC-AGI-20%—
ARC-AGI-16.1%—
CritPt0.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1267—

Math Magistral Medium leads

Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189), Nova Premier 1.0: 33.8 (#199)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumNova Premier 1.0
Omni-MATH—35%
LMArena Math1250—

Knowledge Nova Premier 1.0 leads

Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202), Nova Premier 1.0: 35.8 (#180)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumNova Premier 1.0
MMLU-Pro—72.6%
GPQA (HELM)—51.8%
LMArena Expert1223—

Multilingual Not comparable

Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224), Nova Premier 1.0: —

BenchmarkMagistral MediumNova Premier 1.0
LMArena Non-English1232—
LMArena Chinese1227—
LMArena French1267—
LMArena German1248—
LMArena Japanese1175—
LMArena Korean1125—
LMArena Russian1224—
LMArena Spanish1271—

Instruction Following Too close to call

Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211), Nova Premier 1.0: 66.8 (#204)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumNova Premier 1.0
IFEval—80.3%
LMArena Instruction Following1254—

Long Context Not comparable

Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183), Nova Premier 1.0: —

BenchmarkMagistral MediumNova Premier 1.0
LMArena Longer Query1295—

Writing & Preference Nova Premier 1.0 leads

Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219), Nova Premier 1.0: 51.0 (#178)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumNova Premier 1.0
LMArena Text1255—
LMArena Creative Writing1245—
WildBench—78.8%
LMArena Multi-Turn1275—

Frequently asked questions

Is Magistral Medium better than Nova Premier 1.0?

Nova Premier 1.0 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index. Magistral Medium costs 1.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Nova Premier 1.0's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Magistral Medium or Nova Premier 1.0?

Magistral Medium is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens; Nova Premier 1.0 lists at $2.50 and $12.50.

Which has the bigger context window?

Nova Premier 1.0 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and Nova Premier 1.0 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and Nova Premier 1.0 has 6.

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