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Nova Micro 1.0 vs Mistral Medium 3.5

Updated October 21, 2026. 33 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.

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Nova Micro 1.0Amazon
Coding
No data
Overall
5.9
Output $/M
$0.14
0
Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI
Coding
25.5
Overall
14.2
Output $/M
$7.50
33
vs boards won of 33 shared

Decision reading

Only Mistral Medium 3.5 has a coding score, 25.5 on the Vibe Coding Index; Nova Micro 1.0 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.

Nova Micro 1.0 has the edge where output tokens cost 53.6x less.

Model ANova Micro 1.0AmazonNot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved taskModel BMistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI25.5/1003 independent benchmarks$6.02 per solved task
Shared results
33
Nova Micro 1.0 only
6
Mistral Medium 3.5 only
47
Like-for-like categories
7 of 9

Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

At a glance

Coding index
Nova Micro 1.0 not benchmarked, Mistral Medium 3.5 25.5 from 3 benchmarks.
Widest category
Agentic work, 80.1 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
Widest single gap
τ²-Bench Telecom: Nova Micro 1.0 14.0% against Mistral Medium 3.5 94.2%, 80.1 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Nova Micro 1.0 $0.14 against Mistral Medium 3.5 $7.50 per million output tokens, 53.6x apart.
Context window
Nova Micro 1.0 takes 128K tokens, Mistral Medium 3.5 262K.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryNova Micro 1.0BarsMistral Medium 3.5Ties
Coding03
Intelligence01
Agentic work01
Reasoning05
Math02
Knowledge04
General017
All shared boards033
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index03
Coding benchmarks for Nova Micro 1.0 and Mistral Medium 3.5
BenchmarkNova Micro 1.0Mistral Medium 3.5Leader
LMArena WebDevNot measured1264Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
AA Coding IndexNot measured46.9Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)Not measured66.4%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)Not measured2.9%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Code migration (Vals AI)Not measured5.1%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)Not measured39.0%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run)14.0%Not measuredOnly Nova Micro 1.0 measured
SciCodeNot measured40.2%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)1.5%33.3%Mistral Medium 3.5
ALE-BenchNot measured764.0Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
LMArena Text: coding12181460Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: software and IT12151458Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena WebDev: ReactNot measured1254Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
LMArena WebDev: HTMLNot measured1308Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 24 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
Intelligence benchmarks for Nova Micro 1.0 and Mistral Medium 3.5
BenchmarkNova Micro 1.0Mistral Medium 3.5Leader
AA Intelligence Index5.914.2Mistral Medium 3.5
Epoch Capabilities IndexNot measured141.4Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
Agentic work benchmarks for Nova Micro 1.0 and Mistral Medium 3.5
BenchmarkNova Micro 1.0Mistral Medium 3.5Leader
AA Agentic IndexNot measured7.0Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)Not measured32.1%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)Not measured4.5%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)Not measured9.1%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)Not measured11.2%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
τ²-Bench Telecom14.0%94.2%Mistral Medium 3.5
Neither model has a result on the other 33 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index05
Reasoning benchmarks for Nova Micro 1.0 and Mistral Medium 3.5
BenchmarkNova Micro 1.0Mistral Medium 3.5Leader
GPQA DiamondNot measured34.9%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)35.8%74.8%Mistral Medium 3.5
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)4.6%13.8%Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: hard prompts11911436Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: expert11831432Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English12031445Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Vision: diagramsNot measured1254Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
LMArena Vision: homeworkNot measured1230Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
Math benchmarks for Nova Micro 1.0 and Mistral Medium 3.5
BenchmarkNova Micro 1.0Mistral Medium 3.5Leader
AA Math Index6.0Not measuredOnly Nova Micro 1.0 measured
AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)6.0%Not measuredOnly Nova Micro 1.0 measured
ProofBenchNot measured9.0%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
LMArena Text: math12061431Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: mathematical work12121440Mistral Medium 3.5
Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
Knowledge benchmarks for Nova Micro 1.0 and Mistral Medium 3.5
BenchmarkNova Micro 1.0Mistral Medium 3.5Leader
MMLU ProNot measured75.3%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
CaseLaw (Vals AI)Not measured44.2%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)Not measured58.8%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)Not measured68.0%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)Not measured28.9%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
MedCode (Vals AI)Not measured33.8%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run)53.1%Not measuredOnly Nova Micro 1.0 measured
MMLU70.8%Not measuredOnly Nova Micro 1.0 measured
LMArena Text: science12101428Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare12071409Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: legal and government12211437Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: business and finance11821426Mistral Medium 3.5
Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
Web design benchmarks for Nova Micro 1.0 and Mistral Medium 3.5
BenchmarkNova Micro 1.0Mistral Medium 3.5Leader
Design Arena: websitesNot measured1142Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Design Arena: UI componentsNot measured1079Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Design Arena: game devNot measured1079Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Design Arena: data vizNot measured1120Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Design Arena: 3DNot measured1061Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Design Arena: all code categoriesNot measured1121Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Design Arena: SVGNot measured950Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Design Arena: ASCII artNot measured1062Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index017
General benchmarks for Nova Micro 1.0 and Mistral Medium 3.5
BenchmarkNova Micro 1.0Mistral Medium 3.5Leader
SAGE (Vals AI)Not measured37.6%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
MedScribe (Vals AI)Not measured67.7%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Vals Multimodal IndexNot measured34.8%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
IFBench29.4%68.8%Mistral Medium 3.5
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)13.0%69.3%Mistral Medium 3.5
DTBenchNot measured75.5%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
LMCANot measured26.1%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Surface Evolver BenchNot measured26.9%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
LMArena Text12081421Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: instruction following11741415Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: creative writing11721374Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena VisionNot measured1222Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
LMArena Text: English12241433Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: non-English11861404Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: Chinese12091444Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: German11921453Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: Japanese1154Not measuredOnly Nova Micro 1.0 measured
LMArena Text: Korean11501384Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: French12381448Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: Spanish12251411Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: Russian11851395Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: PolishNot measured1430Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
LMArena Text: multi-turn11781423Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: longer queries12051415Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: writing and language11921384Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: entertainment and media11631382Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Vision: EnglishNot measured1240Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
LMArena Vision: ChineseNot measured1244Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
LMArena Vision: reading textNot measured1233Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
LMArena Vision: humorNot measured1216Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
LMArena Vision: creative writingNot measured1198Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Nova Micro 1.0 and Mistral Medium 3.5
BenchmarkNova Micro 1.0Mistral Medium 3.5Leader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

Nova Micro 1.0$0.0001Fits in one request
Mistral Medium 3.5$0.0053Fits in one request

Nova Micro 1.0 costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Nova Micro 1.0$0.0022Fits in one request
Mistral Medium 3.5$0.098Fits in one request

Nova Micro 1.0 costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Nova Micro 1.0$0.0084Exceeds the context window
Mistral Medium 3.5$0.375Fits in one request

Nova Micro 1.0 costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of Nova Micro 1.0 and Mistral Medium 3.5
SpecificationAmazon Nova Micro 1.0Mistral Medium 3.5
MakerAmazonMistral AI
WeightsNo public weights listedNo public weights listed
ReleasedDecember 5, 2024April 30, 2026
Context window128K262K
Input $/Mtok$0.035$1.50
Output $/Mtok$0.14$7.50
Coding indexNot benchmarked25.5
Independent measurements behind it03
Cost per solved taskNot computable$6.02
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Nova Micro 1.0 better than Mistral Medium 3.5 for coding?

Only Mistral Medium 3.5 has a coding score, 25.5 on the Vibe Coding Index; Nova Micro 1.0 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Nova Micro 1.0 has the edge where output tokens cost 53.6x less.

Which is cheaper, Nova Micro 1.0 or Mistral Medium 3.5?

Nova Micro 1.0 costs $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.5 costs $1.50 and $7.50. Cost per solved task is known for Mistral Medium 3.5 only.

Which has the bigger context window, Nova Micro 1.0 or Mistral Medium 3.5?

Mistral Medium 3.5, with 262K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks is the Nova Micro 1.0 vs Mistral Medium 3.5 comparison based on?

33 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Nova Micro 1.0's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Mistral Medium 3.5's on 3. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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