Model comparison

Amazon Nova Micro vs Magistral Small

Amazon Nova Micro and Magistral Small score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 30.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Micro Amazon

30.4

Rank #294 Confirmed

Magistral Small Mistral AI

30.2

Rank #296 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 17.4 to 6.8.
  • Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $1.50 for Magistral Small.
  • Magistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova Micro and Magistral Small specifications
Amazon Nova MicroMagistral Small
ProviderAmazonMistral AI
Noometry Index30.430.2
Released2024-12-032025-06-10
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K128K
Max output10K40K
Input $ / M tokens$0.035$0.50
Output $ / M tokens$0.14$1.50
Results tracked3210

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Category by category

Coding Magistral Small leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroMagistral Small
SciCode—35.2%
LiveBench Coding20.2%—
LMArena Coding1218—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Magistral Small: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroMagistral Small
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard22.3%—

Reasoning Amazon Nova Micro leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroMagistral Small
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—6.3%
ARC-AGI-1—5%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—3%
LiveBench Reasoning25.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1191—
DTBench—61.3%
LiveBench Data Analysis34%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—133.19
LiveBench29.6%—

Math Too close to call

Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroMagistral Small
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—30%
Omni-MATH21.4%—
LiveBench Math34.5%—
LMArena Math1206—

Knowledge Magistral Small leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroMagistral Small
GPQA Diamond—56.1%
MMLU-Pro51.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.5%—
GPQA (HELM)38.3%—
LMArena Expert1184—
MMLU70.8%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Magistral Small: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroMagistral Small
LMArena Non-English1186—
LMArena Chinese1209—
LMArena French1238—
LMArena German1192—
LMArena Japanese1154—
LMArena Korean1150—
LMArena Russian1185—
LMArena Spanish1225—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Magistral Small: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroMagistral Small
LiveBench Instruction Following48%—
IFEval76%—
LMArena Instruction Following1174—

Long Context Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Magistral Small: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroMagistral Small
LMArena Longer Query1205—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Magistral Small: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroMagistral Small
LMArena Text1208—
LMArena Creative Writing1172—
WildBench74.3%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1178—
LiveBench Language15.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Magistral Small?

Amazon Nova Micro and Magistral Small score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 30.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Magistral Small?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Magistral Small lists at $0.50 and $1.50.

Is Amazon Nova Micro or Magistral Small better for coding?

Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 128K tokens.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Magistral Small share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Small has 10.

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