Model comparison
Ministral 8B vs Nova Premier 1.0
Nova Premier 1.0 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 8B costs 50× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Nova Premier 1.0's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
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Mistral AISummary
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Nova Premier 1.0 leads 35.4 to 12.5.
- Ministral 8B is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.10 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 128K.
- Ministral 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Ministral 8B | Nova Premier 1.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Amazon |
| Noometry Index | 27.8 | 37.7 |
| Released | 2024-10-01 | 2025-04-30 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | 1M |
| Max output | 128K | 10K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.10 | $2.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.10 | $12.50 |
| Results tracked | 17 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 34.4 (#226), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1202 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 16.2 (#140), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 11.1% | — |
Reasoning Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Ministral 8B: 17.7 (#279), Nova Premier 1.0: 22.3 (#182)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 44.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| DTBench | 45.7% | — |
Math Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Ministral 8B: 23.7 (#262), Nova Premier 1.0: 31.5 (#194)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | — | 35% |
| LMArena Math | 1188 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 14.9% | — |
Knowledge Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Ministral 8B: 12.5 (#292), Nova Premier 1.0: 35.4 (#176)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 27.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 72.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.4% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 51.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1170 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 35.3 (#242), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1165 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1193 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1195 | — |
Instruction Following Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Ministral 8B: 60.7 (#245), Nova Premier 1.0: 66.9 (#201)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 80.3% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1161 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#222), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1212 | — |
Writing & Preference Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Ministral 8B: 39.8 (#241), Nova Premier 1.0: 51.0 (#174)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1191 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1175 | — |
| WildBench | — | 78.8% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1166 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Ministral 8B better than Nova Premier 1.0?
Nova Premier 1.0 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 8B costs 50× 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, Ministral 8B or Nova Premier 1.0?
Ministral 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 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 128K.
How many benchmarks do Ministral 8B and Nova Premier 1.0 share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Ministral 8B has 17 scored results on Noometry and Nova Premier 1.0 has 6.