# Mistral Medium vs Nova 2.0 Pro Preview

> Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.0 to 32.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-medium-vs-nova-2-0-pro-preview
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 2

## Summary

- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Medium scores higher in 2 categories and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Nova 2.0 Pro Preview leads 40.2 to 33.8.
- Mistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Medium | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Amazon |
| Noometry Index | 36.0 | 32.8 |
| Rank | 211 | 241 |
| Context | 262K | — |
| Input $/M | $1.50 | — |
| Output $/M | $7.50 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Mistral Medium: 33.8 (#241)
- Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 40.2 (#130)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 40.2% | 42.7% |
| FrontierCode | 8% | — |
| WeirdML | 43.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1434 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 763.98 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#84)
- Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 21.9 (#127)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.7% | — |
| GDP.pdf | — | 2% |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Medium: 23.3 (#165)
- Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 21.7 (#189)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0% | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 50% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1426 | — |
| DTBench | 75.5% | — |
| LMCA | 26.1% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 26.9% | — |

## Math

- Mistral Medium: 27.2 (#238)
- Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 32.2% | — |
| ProofBench | 9% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1409 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 81.6% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Medium: 24.9 (#260)
- Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 59.5% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 22.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1408 | — |

## Multimodal

- Mistral Medium: 34.6 (#82)
- Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1172 | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Medium: 52.3 (#86)
- Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1408 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | — |
| LMArena French | 1460 | — |
| LMArena German | 1433 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1378 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1382 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1411 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1433 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Medium: 73.9 (#111)
- Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1398 | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#108)
- Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1406 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Medium: 60.2 (#97)
- Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1424 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1391 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 77.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1418 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral Medium better than Nova 2.0 Pro Preview?

Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.0 to 32.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Mistral Medium or Nova 2.0 Pro Preview better for coding?

Nova 2.0 Pro Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.2 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium has 36 scored results on Noometry and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview has 3.