# Amazon Nova Micro vs Magistral Medium

> Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 45× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Magistral Medium's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-magistral-medium
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 1 category and Magistral Medium in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Magistral Medium leads 66.0 to 56.3.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.
- Magistral Medium accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.
- Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 35.2 |
| Rank | 294 | 227 |
| Context | 128K | 262K |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | $2 |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | $5 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1319 |
| SciCode | — | 39.2% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- Magistral Medium: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1267 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 16.2% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 6.1% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1250 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1223 |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1232 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1227 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1267 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1248 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1175 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1125 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1224 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1271 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1254 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1295 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1255 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1245 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1275 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Magistral Medium?

Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 45× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Magistral Medium's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Magistral Medium?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Magistral Medium lists at $2 and $5.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Magistral Medium better for coding?

Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Magistral Medium does, with 262K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Magistral Medium share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.