# Amazon Nova Micro vs Mistral 7B

> Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.4 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-mistral-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 29.6 to 7.4.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $0.25 for Mistral 7B.
- Amazon Nova Micro accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 8K.
- Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 23.0 |
| Rank | 294 | 351 |
| Context | 128K | 8K |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | $0.25 |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | $0.25 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1082 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 19.5% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 36% |
| MBPP+ | — | 42.1% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- Mistral 7B: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1067 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| DTBench | — | 42.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 56.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 112.21 |
| HellaSwag | — | 81% |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.3% |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1085 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 0.3% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 3.7% |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1036 |
| MMLU | 70.8% | 62.5% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 15.2% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 87.4% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 79.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 75.2% |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1009 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1037 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 878 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1018 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1026 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1060 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1060 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1062 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Mistral 7B?

Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.4 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Mistral 7B?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Mistral 7B lists at $0.25 and $0.25.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Mistral 7B better for coding?

Amazon Nova Micro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.5 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Micro does, with 128K tokens against 8K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Mistral 7B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.