# Amazon Nova Micro vs Mistral Small 3

> Amazon Nova Micro and Mistral Small 3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-mistral-small-3
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 16

## Summary

- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral Small 3 in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 26.9 to 16.3.
- Mistral Small 3 is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.08 per million input/output tokens, against $0.035 / $0.14 for Amazon Nova Micro.
- Amazon Nova Micro accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 33K.
- Mistral Small 3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 31.2 |
| Rank | 294 | 278 |
| Context | 128K | 33K |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | $0.05 |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | $0.08 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- Mistral Small 3: 36.5 (#207)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1246 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45.3% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 50.4% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

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

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

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- Mistral Small 3: 18.9 (#273)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1233 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 127.07 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- Mistral Small 3: 16.3 (#295)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1240 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 6.7% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- Mistral Small 3: 25.1 (#263)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1202 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 25.2% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- Mistral Small 3: 37.3 (#236)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1198 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1204 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1203 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1211 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1111 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1188 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1216 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- Mistral Small 3: 63.7 (#229)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1214 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- Mistral Small 3: 37.8 (#211)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1246 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- Mistral Small 3: 32.2 (#280)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1234 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1195 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1217 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 707 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

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

Amazon Nova Micro and Mistral Small 3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

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

Mistral Small 3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.08 per million output tokens; Amazon Nova Micro lists at $0.035 and $0.14.

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

Mistral Small 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.5 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Micro does, with 128K tokens against 33K.

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

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