Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Claude 3 Sonnet
Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.4 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 3 categories and Claude 3 Sonnet in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 26.9 to 10.7.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Sonnet | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Anthropic |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 29.0 |
| 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 | 30 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1223 |
| WeirdML | — | 10.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 42.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 53.8% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 64% |
| MBPP+ | — | 69.3% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Claude 3 Sonnet: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1197 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| DTBench | — | 53.6% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 120.7 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.1% |
Math Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1213 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.5% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 18.2% |
Knowledge Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1173 |
| MMLU | 70.8% | 75.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 40.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: —, Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 984 |
Multilingual Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1205 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1189 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1229 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1204 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1131 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1128 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1227 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1204 |
Instruction Following Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1199 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1211 |
Writing & Preference Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1218 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1186 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1227 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Claude 3 Sonnet?
Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.4 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Claude 3 Sonnet better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (30.5 vs 29.6); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Claude 3 Sonnet share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Claude 3 Sonnet has 30.