Noometry

Model comparison

Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Nova Premier 1.0

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.2 to 38.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Medium 3.5 Mistral AI

40.2

Rank #152 Confirmed

Nova Premier 1.0 Amazon

38.3

Rank #189 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher in 4 categories and Nova Premier 1.0 in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where Mistral Medium 3.5 leads 74.6 to 66.8.
  • Mistral Medium 3.5 is cheaper at $1.50 / $7.50 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.
  • Mistral Medium 3.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Mistral Medium 3.5Nova Premier 1.0
ProviderMistral AIAmazon
Noometry Index40.238.3
Released—2025-04-30
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window262K1M
Max output210K10K
Input $ / M tokens$1.50$2.50
Output $ / M tokens$7.50$12.50
Results tracked226

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213), Nova Premier 1.0: —

BenchmarkMistral Medium 3.5Nova Premier 1.0
LMArena WebDev1264—
LMArena Coding1461—

Reasoning Nova Premier 1.0 leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295), Nova Premier 1.0: 23.0 (#185)

BenchmarkMistral Medium 3.5Nova Premier 1.0
Kagi LLM Benchmark41.4%44.8%
NYT Connections (extended)12.9%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1436—
Epoch Capabilities Index141.35—

Math Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113), Nova Premier 1.0: 33.8 (#199)

BenchmarkMistral Medium 3.5Nova Premier 1.0
Omni-MATH—35%
LMArena Math1431—

Knowledge Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126), Nova Premier 1.0: 35.8 (#180)

BenchmarkMistral Medium 3.5Nova Premier 1.0
MMLU-Pro—72.6%
GPQA (HELM)—51.8%
LMArena Expert1432—

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65), Nova Premier 1.0: —

BenchmarkMistral Medium 3.5Nova Premier 1.0
LMArena Vision1223—

Multilingual Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100), Nova Premier 1.0: —

BenchmarkMistral Medium 3.5Nova Premier 1.0
LMArena Non-English1404—
LMArena Chinese1442—
LMArena French1448—
LMArena German1451—
LMArena Korean1385—
LMArena Russian1395—
LMArena Spanish1409—

Instruction Following Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90), Nova Premier 1.0: 66.8 (#204)

BenchmarkMistral Medium 3.5Nova Premier 1.0
IFEval—80.3%
LMArena Instruction Following1415—

Long Context Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103), Nova Premier 1.0: —

BenchmarkMistral Medium 3.5Nova Premier 1.0
LMArena Longer Query1415—

Writing & Preference Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117), Nova Premier 1.0: 51.0 (#178)

BenchmarkMistral Medium 3.5Nova Premier 1.0
LMArena Text1421—
LMArena Creative Writing1374—
WildBench—78.8%
EQ-Bench 4993—
LMArena Multi-Turn1423—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Medium 3.5 better than Nova Premier 1.0?

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.2 to 38.3 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium 3.5 or Nova Premier 1.0?

Mistral Medium 3.5 is cheaper. It lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 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 Mistral Medium 3.5 and Nova Premier 1.0 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22 scored results on Noometry and Nova Premier 1.0 has 6.

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