# Amazon Nova Micro vs Mistral Medium

> Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 49× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-mistral-medium
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 19

## Summary

- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Medium in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium leads 60.0 to 39.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Vectara Hallucination Rate: 5.5% for Amazon Nova Micro and 22.7% for Mistral Medium.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium.
- Mistral Medium accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.
- Mistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 36.3 |
| Rank | 294 | 218 |
| Context | 128K | 262K |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | $7.50 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1434 |
| FrontierCode | — | 8% |
| SciCode | — | 40.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 763.98 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | 37.7% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1426 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 50% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| DTBench | — | 75.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LMCA | — | 26.1% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 26.9% |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1408 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 32.2% |
| ProofBench | — | 9% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 81.6% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | 22.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1408 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 59.5% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Micro: —
- Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1172 |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1408 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1447 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1459 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1432 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1378 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1380 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1433 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1398 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1406 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1424 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1391 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1418 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 77.3% |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

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

Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 49× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

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

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

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

Mistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.2 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

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

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

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.