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Mistral Large 3 vs Nova Premier 1.0

Mistral Large 3 and Nova Premier 1.0 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.1 vs 38.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Large 3 Mistral AI

39.1

Rank #176 Confirmed

Nova Premier 1.0 Amazon

38.3

Rank #189 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Mistral Large 3 scores higher in 4 categories and Nova Premier 1.0 in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Large 3 leads 60.0 to 51.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 50.9% for Mistral Large 3 and 44.8% for Nova Premier 1.0.
  • Mistral Large 3 is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.75 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 Large 3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Mistral Large 3Nova Premier 1.0
ProviderMistral AIAmazon
Noometry Index39.138.3
Released2025-12-022025-04-30
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window262K1M
Max output8K10K
Input $ / M tokens$0.25$2.50
Output $ / M tokens$0.75$12.50
Results tracked246

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mistral Large 3: 34.4 (#237), Nova Premier 1.0: —

BenchmarkMistral Large 3Nova Premier 1.0
LMArena WebDev1230—
LMArena Coding1448—

Reasoning Nova Premier 1.0 leads

Mistral Large 3: 15.2 (#319), Nova Premier 1.0: 23.0 (#185)

BenchmarkMistral Large 3Nova Premier 1.0
Kagi LLM Benchmark50.9%44.8%
NYT Connections (extended)7.5%—
Thematic Generalization23%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1429—

Math Mistral Large 3 leads

Mistral Large 3: 38.7 (#129), Nova Premier 1.0: 33.8 (#199)

BenchmarkMistral Large 3Nova Premier 1.0
Omni-MATH—35%
LMArena Math1414—

Knowledge Too close to call

Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#177), Nova Premier 1.0: 35.8 (#180)

BenchmarkMistral Large 3Nova Premier 1.0
MMLU-Pro—72.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.5%—
GPQA (HELM)—51.8%
LMArena Expert1421—

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Large 3: 38.2 (#66), Nova Premier 1.0: —

BenchmarkMistral Large 3Nova Premier 1.0
LMArena Vision1221—

Multilingual Not comparable

Mistral Large 3: 52.5 (#84), Nova Premier 1.0: —

BenchmarkMistral Large 3Nova Premier 1.0
LMArena Non-English1413—
LMArena Chinese1447—
LMArena French1455—
LMArena German1437—
LMArena Japanese1394—
LMArena Korean1384—
LMArena Russian1411—
LMArena Spanish1440—

Instruction Following Mistral Large 3 leads

Mistral Large 3: 74.0 (#108), Nova Premier 1.0: 66.8 (#204)

BenchmarkMistral Large 3Nova Premier 1.0
IFEval—80.3%
LMArena Instruction Following1403—

Long Context Not comparable

Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#105), Nova Premier 1.0: —

BenchmarkMistral Large 3Nova Premier 1.0
LMArena Longer Query1413—

Writing & Preference Mistral Large 3 leads

Mistral Large 3: 60.0 (#101), Nova Premier 1.0: 51.0 (#178)

BenchmarkMistral Large 3Nova Premier 1.0
LMArena Text1428—
LMArena Creative Writing1386—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1412—
WildBench—78.8%
LMArena Multi-Turn1429—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Large 3 better than Nova Premier 1.0?

Mistral Large 3 and Nova Premier 1.0 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.1 vs 38.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Mistral Large 3 or Nova Premier 1.0?

Mistral Large 3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.75 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 Large 3 and Nova Premier 1.0 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Mistral Large 3 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Nova Premier 1.0 has 6.

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