Amazon Nova Pro vs Mistral OCR 4
Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Amazon Nova Pro is meaningfully stronger at coding (68 vs 5 on our capability index).
- •Mistral OCR 4 is meaningfully stronger at cost efficiency (96 vs 82).
- •Amazon Nova Pro is 100% cheaper on input tokens, which compounds fast on high-volume or agentic workloads.
Specs comparison
| Amazon Nova Pro | Mistral OCR 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon Web Services | Mistral AI |
| Type | Closed source | Closed source |
| Context window | ✓300K tokens | Not announced |
| Input / 1M tokens | ✓$0.80 | 4000 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $3.20 | 4000 |
| Release date | 2024-12 | 2026-06 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Mistral OCR 4 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | ~85% | - |
| OlmOCRBench | - | 85.20 |
| OmniDocBench | - | 93.07 |
| Human preference (head-to-head) | - | 72% win rate |
| Human evaluation (blind) | - | 72% |
| Human Evaluation (Blind Test) | - | 72% win rate |
Scores sourced from official provider release posts and independent benchmark aggregators.
Which should you choose?
Choose Amazon Nova Pro if...
- →You are building on AWS and want native Bedrock integration
- →You need multimodal understanding of images or video plus text
- →You want a cost-balanced general model with a large context
- →You need enterprise controls: data residency, service tiers, prompt caching
Choose Mistral OCR 4 if...
- →You need to convert PDFs, scans, or office docs into structured text/Markdown
- →You require high-accuracy multilingual document parsing at low cost
- →You need tables, equations, and layout preserved with confidence scores
- →You must keep documents in-house (self-hosted deployment)