# Amazon Nova Micro vs Mistral Medium 3.5

> Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 49× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium 3.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-mistral-medium-3-5
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 16

## Summary

- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Medium 3.5 in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium 3.5 leads 58.6 to 39.7.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium 3.5.
- Mistral Medium 3.5 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.
- Mistral Medium 3.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 39.6 |
| Rank | 290 | 151 |
| Context | 128K | 262K |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | $7.50 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.0 (#289)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 35.7 (#208)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1461 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1263 |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 21.9 (#125)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 16.7 (#289)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 16.6 (#290)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1436 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 41.4% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 12.9% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 141.42 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 24.9 (#252)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.4 (#113)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1432 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.2 (#231)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.3 (#123)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1431 |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Micro: —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 37.6 (#64)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1222 |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.7 (#234)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 52.1 (#93)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1405 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1443 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1448 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1453 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1387 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1396 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1406 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.6 (#267)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.7 (#87)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1414 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#224)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#101)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1206 | 1414 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.7 (#242)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.6 (#113)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1421 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1372 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1423 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 993 |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Mistral Medium 3.5?

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 49× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium 3.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Mistral Medium 3.5?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.5 lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Mistral Medium 3.5 better for coding?

Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.7 versus 30.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Medium 3.5 does, with 262K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Mistral Medium 3.5 share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.