Model comparison
Mistral Large vs Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
Nova 2.0 Pro Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Large scores higher in 1 category and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Nova 2.0 Pro Preview leads 22.4 to 15.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 36.2% for Mistral Large and 42.7% for Nova 2.0 Pro Preview.
- Mistral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mistral Large | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Amazon |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 33.4 |
| Released | 2024-02-26 | 2025-12-02 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 16K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $6 | — |
| Results tracked | 51 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Nova 2.0 Pro Preview leads
Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 40.8 (#133)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 36.2% | 42.7% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 30% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 47.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1277 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 38.3% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 264.7 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 62.2% | — |
| MBPP+ | 59.5% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Mistral Large leads
Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 21.9 (#136)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 38.4% | — |
| GDP.pdf | — | 2% |
Reasoning Nova 2.0 Pro Preview leads
Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 22.4 (#194)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0% | 0% |
| SimpleBench | 22.5% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 43.5% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | — |
| DTBench | 65.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 50.1% | — |
| LMCA | 16.7% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 128.52 | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.1 | — |
| LiveBench | 48.4% | — |
Math Not comparable
Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 28.1% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 42.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1262 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 50.3% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 51.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 59.9% | — |
| Confabulations | 21.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 4.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.5% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1232 | — |
| MMLU | 80% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1237 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1240 | — |
| LMArena French | 1325 | — |
| LMArena German | 1254 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1188 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1202 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1257 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1268 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.9% | — |
| IFEval | 87.7% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1249 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1261 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1266 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1243 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 69% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 985 | — |
| WildBench | 80.1% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1260 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 39.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Large better than Nova 2.0 Pro Preview?
Nova 2.0 Pro Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Mistral Large or Nova 2.0 Pro Preview better for coding?
Nova 2.0 Pro Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.8 versus 34.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Large and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Large has 51 scored results on Noometry and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview has 3.