# Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20 vs Mistral Small

> Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-experimental-chat-10-20-vs-mistral-small
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20 scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral Small in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20 leads 39.0 to 16.4.
- Mistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 42.1 | 33.4 |
| Rank | 118 | 243 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.60 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20: 41.6 (#123)
- Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1412 | 1362 |
| SciCode | — | 26.5% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 36.1% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 36.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.6% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 497.62 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20: —
- Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.1% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20: 28.4 (#106)
- Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1396 | 1335 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.8% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 44.8% |
| DTBench | — | 70.9% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 53.7% |
| LMCA | — | 20.6% |
| LiveBench | — | 44% |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20: 39.0 (#119)
- Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1425 | 1341 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 5.8% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 39.9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 46.8% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20: 38.5 (#144)
- Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1386 | 1291 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.1% |
| MMLU | — | 68.7% |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20: —
- Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1142 |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20: 49.5 (#131)
- Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1372 | 1315 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1404 | 1340 |
| LMArena French | 1425 | 1337 |
| LMArena German | 1391 | 1340 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1360 | 1275 |
| LMArena Korean | 1324 | 1259 |
| LMArena Russian | 1371 | 1324 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1382 | 1346 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20: 72.1 (#141)
- Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1365 | 1310 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 63.7% |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20: 41.7 (#133)
- Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1370 | 1327 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20: 56.6 (#136)
- Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1394 | 1338 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1318 | 1305 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1364 | 1344 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 30.5% |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20 better than Mistral Small?

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20 or Mistral Small better for coding?

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.6 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20 and Mistral Small share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20 has 17 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small has 39.