Pick Amazon Nova Pro for multimodal input across text, image and video at $0.80/$3.20 or deep aws and bedrock integration for enterprise pipelines. Pick Mistral Medium 3 for strong cost-to-capability at $0.40/$2.00 or general reasoning, coding and multimodal tasks. On a tight budget at scale, Mistral Medium 3 is the value pick.
Amazon Nova Pro (Amazon, US) and Mistral Medium 3 (Mistral AI, France) line up two different AI ecosystems against each other — a comparison that is as much about cost philosophy and openness as raw capability. Amazon Nova Pro is amazon's multimodal Bedrock model at $0.80/$3.20 with a 300K window — an enterprise-integrated generalist, not a frontier model. Mistral Medium 3 is mistral's mid-tier model at $0.40/$2.00 — efficient general capability with a 128K window, below the 1M-context frontier tier. They diverge most on price and context window — each quantified below from the models' real specs.
Key differences
Price: Mistral Medium 3 is about 2× cheaper on input ($0.4/$2 per 1M tokens vs $0.8/$3.2 per 1M tokens) — meaningful once you are processing millions of tokens a month.
Context window: Amazon Nova Pro holds 2.3× more — 300K (~450 pages) vs 128K (~192 pages). But effective recall usually fades long before the advertised ceiling, so the bigger number only helps if the model reasons over it.
Recency: Mistral Medium 3 is the newer model by about 5 months (released May 7, 2025), usually meaning fresher training data and capabilities.
Ecosystem: this is a US-vs-France matchup — they differ in pricing philosophy, data-residency options, and tooling ecosystems, not only benchmarks.
Specifications
Spec
Amazon Nova Pro
Mistral Medium 3
Provider
Amazon (US)
Mistral AI (France)
Released
December 5, 2024
May 7, 2025
Context window
300K (~450 pages)
128K (~192 pages)
Price (in/out)
$0.8/$3.2 per 1M tokens
$0.4/$2 per 1M tokens
Open weight?
No — API only
No — API only
Modalities
text, image, video, code
text, image, code
SWE-Bench Verified
Not published
Not published
MRCR v2 @ 1M
Not published
Not published
Who wins what
Multimodal input across text, image and video at $0.80/$3.20: Amazon Nova Pro — Amazon's multimodal Bedrock model at $0.80/$3.20 with a 300K window — an enterprise-integrated generalist, not a frontier model — and it carries the larger 300K context.
Deep AWS and Bedrock integration for enterprise pipelines: Amazon Nova Pro — Amazon Nova Pro lists deep AWS and Bedrock integration for enterprise pipelines among its strengths; Mistral Medium 3 does not.
Balanced cost-to-capability for general business tasks: Amazon Nova Pro — Amazon Nova Pro lists balanced cost-to-capability for general business tasks among its strengths; Mistral Medium 3 does not.
Strong cost-to-capability at $0.40/$2.00: Mistral Medium 3 — At $0.4/$2 per 1M tokens it undercuts Amazon Nova Pro ($0.8/$3.2 per 1M tokens), and that gap compounds at volume.
General reasoning, coding and multimodal tasks: Mistral Medium 3 — Amazon Nova Pro is comparatively weak here — not a frontier reasoning or coding model against 2026 flagships
Efficient mid-tier deployment for production workloads: Mistral Medium 3 — Mistral's mid-tier model at $0.40/$2.00 — efficient general capability with a 128K window, below the 1M-context frontier tier — and it runs cheaper at $0.4/$2 per 1M tokens.
Lowest cost at scale: Mistral Medium 3 — At $0.4/$2 per 1M tokens, it is the cheaper of the two — the gap dominates the bill on high-volume workloads.
Largest single-prompt input: Amazon Nova Pro — Its 300K window is about 2.3× larger than Mistral Medium 3's 128K, fitting roughly 450 pages in one prompt.
Which should you pick?
A cost-sensitive startup shipping high volume: Mistral Medium 3 — At $0.4/$2 per 1M tokens it undercuts Amazon Nova Pro, and on millions of tokens that margin decides the monthly bill.
Someone analysing very long documents or codebases: Amazon Nova Pro — Larger 300K window fits more in one prompt.
Anyone whose priority is multimodal input across text, image and video at $0.80/$3.20: Amazon Nova Pro — It is specifically built for that.
Anyone whose priority is strong cost-to-capability at $0.40/$2.00: Mistral Medium 3 — That is its strongest area.
An enterprise with regional data-residency rules: Amazon Nova Pro or Mistral Medium 3 — Origin (US vs France) affects where data is processed and which compliance regime applies — check the provider's terms for your region.
Amazon Nova Pro: where it fits
Amazon's multimodal Bedrock model at $0.80/$3.20 with a 300K window — an enterprise-integrated generalist, not a frontier model. Released December 5, 2024 by Amazon, it is built for multimodal input across text, image and video at $0.80/$3.20, deep AWS and Bedrock integration for enterprise pipelines, balanced cost-to-capability for general business tasks, and a 300K context for long documents and mixed media.
Its trade-offs are real: not a frontier reasoning or coding model against 2026 flagships, no published SWE-Bench Verified score, best value is realised inside the AWS ecosystem, and late-2024 model — older than most of the field here. At $0.8 in / $3.2 out per million tokens, it sits in the budget price band.
Mistral Medium 3: where it fits
Mistral's mid-tier model at $0.40/$2.00 — efficient general capability with a 128K window, below the 1M-context frontier tier. Released May 7, 2025 by Mistral AI, it is built for strong cost-to-capability at $0.40/$2.00, general reasoning, coding and multimodal tasks, efficient mid-tier deployment for production workloads, and text and image input.
Its trade-offs: a 128K context — smaller than the 1M-window flagships here, no published SWE-Bench Verified score, a mid-tier model, not a frontier reasoner, and proprietary, unlike Mistral's open-weight releases. At $0.4 in / $2 out per million tokens, it sits in the budget price band.
The bottom line for this matchup
This is less "which is smarter" and more "which ecosystem fits." Amazon Nova Pro (US) and Mistral Medium 3 (France) differ on pricing philosophy, data-residency, and tooling as much as on raw scores. Mistral Medium 3 is the cheaper option, which matters at volume. The pragmatic move is to run one real task through both and judge the outputs against your own constraints — including where your data is allowed to be processed.
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Pro or Mistral Medium 3 better for coding?
Public SWE-Bench figures are not available for either model, so the honest test is your own repository — run an identical real bug through both. By design, Amazon Nova Pro leans toward multimodal input across text, image and video at $0.80/$3.20 while Mistral Medium 3 leans toward strong cost-to-capability at $0.40/$2.00, and that positioning usually predicts which feels better on your codebase.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro or Mistral Medium 3?
Mistral Medium 3 is cheaper — $0.8/$3.2 per 1M tokens vs $0.4/$2 per 1M tokens, roughly 2× apart on input.
Which has the bigger context window?
Amazon Nova Pro — 300K vs 128K, about 2.3× larger. Useful only if the model actually reasons over the full window, which not all do.
Can I use both Amazon Nova Pro and Mistral Medium 3 together?
Yes — a multi-model platform like LumiChats gives you Amazon Nova Pro, Mistral Medium 3 and 40+ others under one ₹69/day pass (about $1/day), so you can draft with one and cross-check with the other instead of buying two subscriptions.
Which is newer, Amazon Nova Pro or Mistral Medium 3?
Mistral Medium 3 — released May 7, 2025, about 5 months after Amazon Nova Pro.
Amazon Nova Pro vs Mistral Medium 3
Amazon · US | Mistral AI · France · Updated June 2026
Quick verdict
Pick Amazon Nova Pro for multimodal input across text, image and video at $0.80/$3.20 or deep aws and bedrock integration for enterprise pipelines. Pick Mistral Medium 3 for strong cost-to-capability at $0.40/$2.00 or general reasoning, coding and multimodal tasks. On a tight budget at scale, Mistral Medium 3 is the value pick.
Amazon Nova Pro (Amazon, US) and Mistral Medium 3 (Mistral AI, France) line up two different AI ecosystems against each other — a comparison that is as much about cost philosophy and openness as raw capability. Amazon Nova Pro is amazon's multimodal Bedrock model at $0.80/$3.20 with a 300K window — an enterprise-integrated generalist, not a frontier model. Mistral Medium 3 is mistral's mid-tier model at $0.40/$2.00 — efficient general capability with a 128K window, below the 1M-context frontier tier. They diverge most on price and context window — each quantified below from the models' real specs.
Key differences at a glance
▸Price: Mistral Medium 3 is about 2× cheaper on input ($0.4/$2 per 1M tokens vs $0.8/$3.2 per 1M tokens) — meaningful once you are processing millions of tokens a month.
▸Context window: Amazon Nova Pro holds 2.3× more — 300K (~450 pages) vs 128K (~192 pages). But effective recall usually fades long before the advertised ceiling, so the bigger number only helps if the model reasons over it.
▸Recency: Mistral Medium 3 is the newer model by about 5 months (released May 7, 2025), usually meaning fresher training data and capabilities.
▸Ecosystem: this is a US-vs-France matchup — they differ in pricing philosophy, data-residency options, and tooling ecosystems, not only benchmarks.
Side-by-side specs
Spec
Amazon Nova Pro
Mistral Medium 3
Provider
Amazon (US)
Mistral AI (France)
Released
December 5, 2024
May 7, 2025
Context window
300K (~450 pages)
128K (~192 pages)
Price (in/out)
$0.8/$3.2 per 1M tokens
$0.4/$2 per 1M tokens
Open weight?
No — API only
No — API only
Modalities
text, image, video, code
text, image, code
SWE-Bench Verified
Not published
Not published
MRCR v2 @ 1M
Not published
Not published
Who wins what
Multimodal input across text, image and video at $0.80/$3.20
Amazon Nova Pro
Amazon's multimodal Bedrock model at $0.80/$3.20 with a 300K window — an enterprise-integrated generalist, not a frontier model — and it carries the larger 300K context.
Deep AWS and Bedrock integration for enterprise pipelines
Amazon Nova Pro
Amazon Nova Pro lists deep AWS and Bedrock integration for enterprise pipelines among its strengths; Mistral Medium 3 does not.
Balanced cost-to-capability for general business tasks
Amazon Nova Pro
Amazon Nova Pro lists balanced cost-to-capability for general business tasks among its strengths; Mistral Medium 3 does not.
Strong cost-to-capability at $0.40/$2.00
Mistral Medium 3
At $0.4/$2 per 1M tokens it undercuts Amazon Nova Pro ($0.8/$3.2 per 1M tokens), and that gap compounds at volume.
General reasoning, coding and multimodal tasks
Mistral Medium 3
Amazon Nova Pro is comparatively weak here — not a frontier reasoning or coding model against 2026 flagships
Efficient mid-tier deployment for production workloads
Mistral Medium 3
Mistral's mid-tier model at $0.40/$2.00 — efficient general capability with a 128K window, below the 1M-context frontier tier — and it runs cheaper at $0.4/$2 per 1M tokens.
Lowest cost at scale
Mistral Medium 3
At $0.4/$2 per 1M tokens, it is the cheaper of the two — the gap dominates the bill on high-volume workloads.
Largest single-prompt input
Amazon Nova Pro
Its 300K window is about 2.3× larger than Mistral Medium 3's 128K, fitting roughly 450 pages in one prompt.
Which should you pick?
A cost-sensitive startup shipping high volume
→ Mistral Medium 3
At $0.4/$2 per 1M tokens it undercuts Amazon Nova Pro, and on millions of tokens that margin decides the monthly bill.
Someone analysing very long documents or codebases
→ Amazon Nova Pro
Larger 300K window fits more in one prompt.
Anyone whose priority is multimodal input across text, image and video at $0.80/$3.20
→ Amazon Nova Pro
It is specifically built for that.
Anyone whose priority is strong cost-to-capability at $0.40/$2.00
→ Mistral Medium 3
That is its strongest area.
An enterprise with regional data-residency rules
→ Amazon Nova Pro or Mistral Medium 3
Origin (US vs France) affects where data is processed and which compliance regime applies — check the provider's terms for your region.
Amazon Nova Pro: where it fits
Amazon's multimodal Bedrock model at $0.80/$3.20 with a 300K window — an enterprise-integrated generalist, not a frontier model. Released December 5, 2024 by Amazon, it is built for multimodal input across text, image and video at $0.80/$3.20, deep AWS and Bedrock integration for enterprise pipelines, balanced cost-to-capability for general business tasks, and a 300K context for long documents and mixed media.
Its trade-offs are real: not a frontier reasoning or coding model against 2026 flagships, no published SWE-Bench Verified score, best value is realised inside the AWS ecosystem, and late-2024 model — older than most of the field here. At $0.8 in / $3.2 out per million tokens, it sits in the budget price band.
Mistral Medium 3: where it fits
Mistral's mid-tier model at $0.40/$2.00 — efficient general capability with a 128K window, below the 1M-context frontier tier. Released May 7, 2025 by Mistral AI, it is built for strong cost-to-capability at $0.40/$2.00, general reasoning, coding and multimodal tasks, efficient mid-tier deployment for production workloads, and text and image input.
Its trade-offs: a 128K context — smaller than the 1M-window flagships here, no published SWE-Bench Verified score, a mid-tier model, not a frontier reasoner, and proprietary, unlike Mistral's open-weight releases. At $0.4 in / $2 out per million tokens, it sits in the budget price band.
The bottom line for this matchup
This is less "which is smarter" and more "which ecosystem fits." Amazon Nova Pro (US) and Mistral Medium 3 (France) differ on pricing philosophy, data-residency, and tooling as much as on raw scores. Mistral Medium 3 is the cheaper option, which matters at volume. The pragmatic move is to run one real task through both and judge the outputs against your own constraints — including where your data is allowed to be processed.
Want both Amazon Nova Pro and Mistral Medium 3 without two subscriptions? LumiChats gives you these plus 40+ models under one ₹69/day pass (about $1/day) — draft with one, cross-check with the other.
Is Amazon Nova Pro or Mistral Medium 3 better for coding?
Public SWE-Bench figures are not available for either model, so the honest test is your own repository — run an identical real bug through both. By design, Amazon Nova Pro leans toward multimodal input across text, image and video at $0.80/$3.20 while Mistral Medium 3 leans toward strong cost-to-capability at $0.40/$2.00, and that positioning usually predicts which feels better on your codebase.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro or Mistral Medium 3?
Mistral Medium 3 is cheaper — $0.8/$3.2 per 1M tokens vs $0.4/$2 per 1M tokens, roughly 2× apart on input.
Which has the bigger context window?
Amazon Nova Pro — 300K vs 128K, about 2.3× larger. Useful only if the model actually reasons over the full window, which not all do.
Can I use both Amazon Nova Pro and Mistral Medium 3 together?
Yes — a multi-model platform like LumiChats gives you Amazon Nova Pro, Mistral Medium 3 and 40+ others under one ₹69/day pass (about $1/day), so you can draft with one and cross-check with the other instead of buying two subscriptions.
Which is newer, Amazon Nova Pro or Mistral Medium 3?
Mistral Medium 3 — released May 7, 2025, about 5 months after Amazon Nova Pro.
Specifications and benchmarks reflect publicly reported figures as of June 2026 and may change as providers release updates. Always verify on your own workload.