Model comparison
Mistral Small vs Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
Mistral Small and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.4 vs 33.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small scores higher in 1 category and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Nova 2.0 Pro Preview leads 40.8 to 34.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 26.5% for Mistral Small and 42.7% for Nova 2.0 Pro Preview.
- Mistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mistral Small | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Amazon |
| Noometry Index | 33.4 | 33.4 |
| Released | 2024-02-26 | 2025-12-02 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 262K | — |
| Max output | 256K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.15 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.60 | — |
| Results tracked | 39 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Nova 2.0 Pro Preview leads
Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 40.8 (#133)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 26.5% | 42.7% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 36.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 36.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1362 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 46.6% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 497.62 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 21.9 (#136)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.1% | — |
| GDP.pdf | — | 2% |
Reasoning Nova 2.0 Pro Preview leads
Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 22.4 (#194)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0% | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 44.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1335 | — |
| DTBench | 70.9% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 53.7% | — |
| LMCA | 20.6% | — |
| LiveBench | 44% | — |
Math Not comparable
Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 5.8% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 39.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1341 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.8% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1291 | — |
| MMLU | 68.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1142 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1315 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1340 | — |
| LMArena French | 1337 | — |
| LMArena German | 1340 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1275 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1259 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1324 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1346 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.7% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1310 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1327 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1338 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1305 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1344 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 30.5% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Small better than Nova 2.0 Pro Preview?
Mistral Small and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.4 vs 33.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Mistral Small or Nova 2.0 Pro Preview better for coding?
Nova 2.0 Pro Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.8 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Small and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small has 39 scored results on Noometry and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview has 3.