# Amazon Nova Micro vs Ministral 3B

> Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 1.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Amazon Nova Micro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-ministral-3b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 2 categories and Ministral 3B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 29.2 to 10.4.
- Ministral 3B is cheaper at $0.04 / $0.04 per million input/output tokens, against $0.035 / $0.14 for Amazon Nova Micro.
- Ministral 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 25.6 |
| Rank | 290 | 336 |
| Context | 128K | 128K |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | $0.04 |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | $0.04 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.0 (#289)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 21.9 (#125)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 16.7 (#289)
- Ministral 3B: 17.7 (#278)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| DTBench | — | 51.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LMCA | — | 5.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.08 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 24.9 (#252)
- Ministral 3B: 24.5 (#257)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 14.4% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.2 (#231)
- Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#297)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | 7.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 25.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.7 (#234)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | — |
| LMArena French | 1237 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.6 (#267)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#224)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1206 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.7 (#242)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | — |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Ministral 3B?

Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 1.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Amazon Nova Micro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Ministral 3B?

Ministral 3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.04 per million output tokens; Amazon Nova Micro lists at $0.035 and $0.14.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 128K tokens.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Ministral 3B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.