# Amazon Nova Micro vs Ministral 8B

> Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.4 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-ministral-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 14

## Summary

- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 4 categories and Ministral 8B in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 29.6 to 12.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 22.3% for Amazon Nova Micro and 11.1% for Ministral 8B.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.15 / $0.15 for Ministral 8B.
- Ministral 8B accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.
- Ministral 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 28.2 |
| Rank | 294 | 325 |
| Context | 128K | 262K |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | $0.15 |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | $0.15 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1202 |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | 11.1% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1191 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| DTBench | — | 45.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1188 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 14.9% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | 7.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1170 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1165 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1193 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1195 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1161 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1212 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1191 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1175 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1166 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Ministral 8B?

Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.4 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Ministral 8B?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Ministral 8B lists at $0.15 and $0.15.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Ministral 8B better for coding?

Ministral 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.0 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Ministral 8B does, with 262K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Ministral 8B share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.