# Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Nova Premier 1.0

> Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-medium-3-5-vs-nova-premier-1-0
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher in 4 categories and Nova Premier 1.0 in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Mistral Medium 3.5 leads 74.7 to 66.9.
- Mistral Medium 3.5 is cheaper at $1.50 / $7.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $12.50 for Nova Premier 1.0.
- Nova Premier 1.0 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
- Mistral Medium 3.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Amazon |
| Noometry Index | 39.6 | 37.7 |
| Rank | 151 | 185 |
| Context | 262K | 1M |
| Input $/M | $1.50 | $2.50 |
| Output $/M | $7.50 | $12.50 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Mistral Medium 3.5: 35.7 (#208)
- Nova Premier 1.0: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1263 | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1461 | — |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Medium 3.5: 16.6 (#290)
- Nova Premier 1.0: 22.3 (#182)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 41.4% | 44.8% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 12.9% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1436 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.42 | — |

## Math

- Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.4 (#113)
- Nova Premier 1.0: 31.5 (#194)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | — | 35% |
| LMArena Math | 1432 | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.3 (#123)
- Nova Premier 1.0: 35.4 (#176)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | — | 72.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 51.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1431 | — |

## Multimodal

- Mistral Medium 3.5: 37.6 (#64)
- Nova Premier 1.0: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1222 | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Medium 3.5: 52.1 (#93)
- Nova Premier 1.0: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1405 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1443 | — |
| LMArena French | 1448 | — |
| LMArena German | 1453 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1387 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1396 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1406 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.7 (#87)
- Nova Premier 1.0: 66.9 (#201)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 80.3% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1414 | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#101)
- Nova Premier 1.0: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1414 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.6 (#113)
- Nova Premier 1.0: 51.0 (#174)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1421 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1372 | — |
| WildBench | — | 78.8% |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 993 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1423 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral Medium 3.5 better than Nova Premier 1.0?

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium 3.5 or Nova Premier 1.0?

Mistral Medium 3.5 is cheaper. It lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens; Nova Premier 1.0 lists at $2.50 and $12.50.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Nova Premier 1.0 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium 3.5 and Nova Premier 1.0 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22 scored results on Noometry and Nova Premier 1.0 has 6.