Head-to-head comparison
Nova Premier 1.0 (Amazon) and Voxtral Small 24B 2507 (Mistral AI) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.
Snapshot as of 17 August 2026
As of 17 August 2026, Voxtral Small 24B 2507 holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#228 vs #230); Voxtral Small 24B 2507 is 41.7× cheaper per output token ($0.30/1M vs $12.50/1M); Nova Premier 1.0 offers the longer context window (1M vs 32K tokens); and Voxtral Small 24B 2507 ships open weights.
Evidence: publisher corpus prior · leave-one-anchor-out calibrated · publisher corpus prior · leave-one-anchor-out calibrated. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.
Neither model has a published result on a public benchmark board ModelCap tracks yet.
Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.
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Voxtral Small 24B 2507 ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 17 August 2026: #228 against #230. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it.
Voxtral Small 24B 2507 is cheaper on output tokens: $0.30/1M against $12.50/1M. Input tokens are $2.50/1M for Nova Premier 1.0 and $0.10/1M for Voxtral Small 24B 2507. Prices are the lowest listed API offer ModelCap observed, in USD per million tokens.
Nova Premier 1.0 has the larger context window: 1M tokens against 32K.
The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.
Nova Premier 1.0: API only. Voxtral Small 24B 2507: Open weights. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.
ModelCap currently lists 1 API provider for Nova Premier 1.0 and 1 for Voxtral Small 24B 2507, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.
Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 17 August 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.