# Amazon Nova Pro vs Mistral Small 3

> Amazon Nova Pro and Mistral Small 3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.0 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

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

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 7 categories and Mistral Small 3 in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Pro leads 28.5 to 16.3.
- Mistral Small 3 is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.08 per million input/output tokens, against $0.80 / $3.20 for Amazon Nova Pro.
- Amazon Nova Pro accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 33K.
- Mistral Small 3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Pro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 31.0 | 31.2 |
| Rank | 281 | 278 |
| Context | 300K | 33K |
| Input $/M | $0.80 | $0.05 |
| Output $/M | $3.20 | $0.08 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Pro: 35.1 (#229)
- Mistral Small 3: 36.5 (#207)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1270 | 1246 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45.3% |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 50.4% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Pro: 16.7 (#147)
- Mistral Small 3: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 25% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 1.7% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Pro: 20.0 (#243)
- Mistral Small 3: 18.9 (#273)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | 1233 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 123.8 | 127.07 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 32.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.3% | — |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Pro: 28.5 (#243)
- Mistral Small 3: 16.3 (#295)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1252 | 1240 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 6.7% |
| Omni-MATH | 24.2% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 38% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Pro: 27.4 (#250)
- Mistral Small 3: 25.1 (#263)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Confabulations | 30.1% | 25.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1211 | 1202 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.3% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.4% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.3% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 44.6% | — |
| MMLU | 82% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Pro: 25.0 (#126)
- Mistral Small 3: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 980 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Pro: 39.7 (#223)
- Mistral Small 3: 37.3 (#236)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1234 | 1198 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1244 | 1204 |
| LMArena French | 1271 | 1203 |
| LMArena German | 1243 | 1211 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1200 | 1111 |
| LMArena Korean | 1203 | 1188 |
| LMArena Russian | 1240 | 1216 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1182 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Pro: 64.9 (#226)
- Mistral Small 3: 63.7 (#229)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1235 | 1214 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.1% | — |
| IFEval | 81.5% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#205)
- Mistral Small 3: 37.8 (#211)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1255 | 1246 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Pro: 43.9 (#226)
- Mistral Small 3: 32.2 (#280)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1259 | 1234 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1212 | 1195 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1246 | 1217 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 60.5% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 707 |
| WildBench | 77.7% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 37% | — |

## FAQ

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

Amazon Nova Pro and Mistral Small 3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.0 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro 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 Pro lists at $0.80 and $3.20.

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

Mistral Small 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.5 versus 35.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Pro does, with 300K tokens against 33K.

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

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3 has 24.