Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Claude 3 Opus
Amazon Nova Micro and Claude 3 Opus score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 29.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 3 categories and Claude 3 Opus in 6 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 26.9 to 14.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Language: 15.8% for Amazon Nova Micro and 50.4% for Claude 3 Opus.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Opus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Anthropic |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 29.5 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-02-29 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | — |
| Results tracked | 32 | 46 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude 3 Opus leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | 38.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1264 |
| WeirdML | — | 19.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 57.4% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 77.4% |
| MBPP+ | — | 73.3% |
Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3 Opus leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
| Cybench | — | 10% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 29.5% |
Reasoning Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | 40.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1245 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | 57.9% |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | 49.2% |
| SimpleBench | — | 23.5% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.8% |
| DTBench | — | 61.6% |
| LMCA | — | 17% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 126.91 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.4 |
| WinoGrande | — | 88.5% |
Math Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | 43.6% |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1273 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 4.7% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 37.5% |
Knowledge Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1223 |
| MMLU | 70.8% | 84.6% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.2% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 12.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 22.7% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: —, Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1023 |
Multilingual Claude 3 Opus leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1258 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1248 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1275 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1258 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1204 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1187 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1280 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1246 |
Instruction Following Claude 3 Opus leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | 63.9% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1248 |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
Long Context Claude 3 Opus leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1259 |
Writing & Preference Claude 3 Opus leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1262 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1235 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1275 |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | 50.4% |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Claude 3 Opus?
Amazon Nova Micro and Claude 3 Opus score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 29.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Claude 3 Opus better for coding?
Claude 3 Opus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Claude 3 Opus share?
25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Claude 3 Opus has 46.