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AI labs compared · October 2026

Amazon vs Mistral AI: which AI lab is ahead?

Each lab's best model on sale goes head to head on every kind of work we measure, from our own benchmarks and licensed sources. 16 models in all; a lab is only as good as the model you would actually pick from it.

4 models on sale with our resultsAmazon Best: Nova 2 Lite · newest: Nova 2 Lite
12 models on sale with our resultsMistral AI Best: Mistral Large 4 · newest: Mistral Large 4
Amazon wins 01 too close to callMistral AI wins 3

Kinds of work led by each lab's best model there, of the 4 both are measured on.

Results as of 8 October 2026 (catalogue release 2026-10-08-4199ce0620fe). Models on sale means listed on OpenRouter today.

Amazon or Mistral AI? The short answer

Mistral AI is ahead: its best models beat Amazon's in 3 of the 4 kinds of work both are measured on; 1 is a tie.

  • Pick Mistral AI for agents and tool use, reasoning and knowledge and writing.
  • Mistral AI's Mistral Large 4 is #17 on our overall leaderboard; no Amazon model has enough of our results to be ranked there yet.
  • Prices start at $0.061 per million tokens for Amazon (Nova Micro 1.0) and $0.058 for Mistral AI (Mistral Small 3).

Head to head

13.4Nova 2 Lite
Best Intelligence Index
38.4Mistral Large 4
$0.85Nova 2 Lite
Flagship price, per million tokens
$2.06Mistral Large 4
$0.061Nova Micro 1.0
Cheapest model, per million tokens
$0.058Mistral Small 3
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Models on sale with our results
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Each line names the model behind the number. Prices are blended, three input tokens to one output, at the developer's list price where we have read it; see every model's price. Intelligence Index from Artificial Analysis; overall score from our leaderboard.

Which lab is better for what

For each kind of work, each lab's best model there and its rank among every model on sale. Further right is better; the better rank is in green.

Product listingsTurning a sparse product feed and photos into listings that can go live not measured 14 of 20Mistral Medium 3.5
Decks from an analysisTurning a finished analysis into a deck you could present as it is not measured 16 of 19Mistral Medium 3.5
User surveysPlanning a user survey and reading its results without being misled not measured 4 of 8Mistral Large 4
Marketing planningPlanning a year of ad spend without overspending not measured 10 of 19Mistral Large 4
Agents and tool useMulti-step tasks with tools: support desks, coding agents, function calls 133 of 164Nova 2 Lite 21 of 164Mistral Large 4
Reasoning and knowledgeHard questions across science, maths and general knowledge 116 of 198Nova 2 Lite 44 of 198Mistral Large 4
WritingWhat people prefer in blind comparisons, and judged writing quality 169 of 188Nova 2 Lite 86 of 188Mistral Medium 3.5
Sticking to the factsSummarising without inventing things, and factual answers 9 of 152Nova Pro 1.0 9 of 152Mistral Small 3
Speed under pressureGood decisions against a real clock (fast chess) not measured 8 of 22Mistral Medium 3.5

Every model, by intelligence and price

Each dot is a model on sale with an Intelligence Index from Artificial Analysis. Up is smarter; left is cheaper. Hover or tap a dot for its name.

AmazonMistral AI

01020304050 $0.01$0.1$1$10 Price per million tokens, blended (log scale) Intelligence Index Nova 2 LiteMistral Large 4Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral Small 4Mistral Large 3Mistral Medium 3.1

On our overall leaderboard

The 2 of their models we rank overall: one score out of 100 across everything we publish (how the score works). Only models with enough of our own results are ranked.

  1. #17Mistral Large 437
  2. #20Mistral Medium 3.518

Benchmark by benchmark

The headline result of every benchmark both labs have models on: each lab's best model and its rank among the models on sale. Green marks the better rank.

MeasureAmazonMistral AI
Agents and tool use
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) V4 · Overall accuracy · BFCL% correct, higher is better 27.1%Nova 2 Lite · 32 of 3837.7%Mistral Medium 3 · 21 of 38
Artificial Analysis · Terminal-Bench 2.1% of tasks, higher is better 16.1%Nova 2 Lite · 87 of 11550.6%Mistral Medium 3.5 · 58 of 115
Reasoning and knowledge
Artificial Analysis · Artificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score, higher is better 13.4Nova 2 Lite · 119 of 19838.4Mistral Large 4 · 29 of 198
Artificial Analysis · Humanity's Last Exam% of questions, higher is better 11.6%Nova 2 Lite · 124 of 19735.0%Mistral Large 4 · 54 of 197
Artificial Analysis · GPQA Diamond% of questions, higher is better 81.1%Nova 2 Lite · 92 of 18776.9%Mistral Small 4 · 112 of 187
Sticking to the facts
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard · Hallucination rate · Vectara% of summaries, lower is better 5.1%Nova 2 Lite · 6 of 795.1%Mistral Small 3 · 6 of 79
Arena (formerly LMArena) · Overall · Text factualityArena rating, higher is better 1,380Nova 2 Lite · 103 of 1131,434Mistral Large 3 · 71 of 113
Writing
Arena (formerly LMArena) · Overall · TextArena rating, higher is better 1,335Nova 2 Lite · 138 of 1661,427Mistral Medium 3.5 · 73 of 166
UGI Leaderboard · Writing score · UGIscore out of 100, higher is better 23.5Nova 2 Lite · 131 of 13845.5Mistral Medium 3.5 · 68 of 138

Quick answers

Is Amazon or Mistral AI better?

Mistral AI is ahead: its best models beat Amazon's in 3 of the 4 kinds of work both are measured on; 1 is a tie.

What is Amazon's best model?

Nova 2 Lite: 13.4 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

What is Mistral AI's best model?

Mistral Large 4: #17 on the Spring Prompt overall leaderboard and 38.4 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

Which is better for agents and tool use, Amazon or Mistral AI?

Mistral AI: its best model there, Mistral Large 4, ranks 21 of 164 models on sale, against 133 for Amazon's Nova 2 Lite.

Which is better for reasoning and knowledge, Amazon or Mistral AI?

Mistral AI: its best model there, Mistral Large 4, ranks 44 of 198 models on sale, against 116 for Amazon's Nova 2 Lite.

Which is better for writing, Amazon or Mistral AI?

Mistral AI: its best model there, Mistral Medium 3.5, ranks 86 of 188 models on sale, against 169 for Amazon's Nova 2 Lite.

Which is cheaper, Amazon or Mistral AI?

Mistral AI's cheapest model with results, Mistral Small 3, costs $0.058 per million tokens (three input to one output), against $0.061 for Nova Micro 1.0 from Amazon.

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Benchmarks aren't your data. We test the models from Amazon, Mistral AI and the rest on your own tasks, with the cost of every answer.

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