# Amazon Nova Micro vs Mixtral 8x22B

> Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.4 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-mixtral-8x22b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 23

## Summary

- They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 6 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 29.6 to 15.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 51.1% for Amazon Nova Micro and 46% for Mixtral 8x22B.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Mixtral 8x22B.
- Amazon Nova Micro accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 64K.
- Mixtral 8x22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 27.1 |
| Rank | 294 | 333 |
| Context | 128K | 64K |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | $2 |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | $6 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1166 |
| WeirdML | — | 3.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 40.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 50.2% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 72% |
| MBPP+ | — | 64.3% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1150 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| DTBench | — | 55.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 122.03 |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | 16.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1184 |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 24.2% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | 46% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | 33.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1113 |
| MMLU | 70.8% | 77.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 34.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1128 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1116 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1166 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1141 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1037 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1057 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1158 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1151 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 76% | 72.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1147 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1144 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1162 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1141 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | 71.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1130 |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Mixtral 8x22B?

Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.4 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Mixtral 8x22B?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x22B lists at $2 and $6.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?

Amazon Nova Micro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.5 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Micro does, with 128K tokens against 64K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Mixtral 8x22B share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.