Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Magistral Small 2506 leads with 28.2% higher average benchmark score. Overall, Magistral Small 2506 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Mistral AI
Magistral Small was created as an efficient reasoning-focused variant, designed to bring analytical capabilities to applications with tighter resource constraints. Built to balance problem-solving depth with practical deployment needs, it extends reasoning-enhanced AI to broader use cases.
Amazon
Amazon Nova Micro was created as an ultra-compact multimodal model, designed for deployment in resource-constrained environments. Built to bring text and image understanding to edge devices and latency-sensitive applications, it extends Amazon's AI capabilities to minimal footprint scenarios.
6 months newer

Nova Micro
Amazon
2024-11-20

Magistral Small 2506
Mistral AI
2025-06-10
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Magistral Small 2506

Nova Micro
Magistral Small 2506
2025-06-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Magistral Small 2506

Nova Micro
Bedrock

Magistral Small 2506

Nova Micro

Magistral Small 2506

Nova Micro