# Amazon Nova Micro vs Mistral Large 3

> Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 6.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Large 3's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-mistral-large-3
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Large 3 in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Large 3 leads 60.0 to 39.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Vectara Hallucination Rate: 5.5% for Amazon Nova Micro and 14.5% for Mistral Large 3.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $0.75 for Mistral Large 3.
- Mistral Large 3 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.
- Mistral Large 3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 39.1 |
| Rank | 294 | 176 |
| Context | 128K | 262K |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | $0.25 |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | $0.75 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- Mistral Large 3: 34.4 (#237)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1448 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1230 |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- Mistral Large 3: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- Mistral Large 3: 15.2 (#319)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1429 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 50.9% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 7.5% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 23% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- Mistral Large 3: 38.7 (#129)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1414 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#177)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | 14.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1421 |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Micro: —
- Mistral Large 3: 38.2 (#66)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1221 |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- Mistral Large 3: 52.5 (#84)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1413 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1447 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1455 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1437 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1394 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1384 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1440 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- Mistral Large 3: 74.0 (#108)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1403 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#105)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1413 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- Mistral Large 3: 60.0 (#101)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1428 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1386 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1429 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1412 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Mistral Large 3?

Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 6.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Large 3's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Mistral Large 3?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Mistral Large 3 lists at $0.25 and $0.75.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Mistral Large 3 better for coding?

Mistral Large 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Large 3 does, with 262K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Mistral Large 3 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large 3 has 24.