Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Codestral
Amazon Nova Micro and Codestral score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 30.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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Summary
- The widest gap is in coding, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 30.5 to 27.3.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $0.90 for Codestral.
- Codestral accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Codestral | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 30.6 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-05-29 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | 256K |
| Max output | 10K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | $0.90 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Codestral: 27.3 (#321)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 11.1% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 41.8% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 52.5% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 137.78 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 73.8% |
| MBPP+ | — | 61.9% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning Codestral leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Codestral: 19.8 (#251)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 32.5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | — |
| LMArena French | 1238 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Codestral: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codestral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | — |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Codestral?
Amazon Nova Micro and Codestral score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 30.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Codestral?
Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Codestral lists at $0.30 and $0.90.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Codestral better for coding?
Amazon Nova Micro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.5 versus 27.3 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Codestral does, with 256K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Codestral share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Codestral has 7.