Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Command A
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 71× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command A's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.
CohereSummary
- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 1 category and Command A in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Command A leads 35.9 to 22.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 22.3% for Amazon Nova Micro and 57.1% for Command A.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command A.
- Command A accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 128K.
- Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Command A | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Cohere |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 36.5 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2025-03-13 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 256K |
| Max output | 10K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | $2.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | $10 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 24 |
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Category by category
Coding Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Command A: 27.2 (#322)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1330 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 12% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Command A leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Command A: 35.9 (#40)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | 57.1% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Command A: 18.3 (#283)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1326 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 28.8% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| DTBench | — | 61.3% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LMCA | — | 10.3% |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Command A leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Command A: 36.2 (#171)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1300 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
Knowledge Command A leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Command A: 37.1 (#159)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | 9.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1295 |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multilingual Command A leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Command A: 45.3 (#170)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1313 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1327 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1351 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1341 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1285 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1285 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1314 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1347 |
Instruction Following Command A leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Command A: 69.1 (#177)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1309 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
Long Context Command A leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Command A: 40.6 (#151)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1334 |
Writing & Preference Command A leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Command A: 47.6 (#208)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1331 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1319 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1339 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1145 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Command A?
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 71× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command A's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Command A?
Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Command A better for coding?
Amazon Nova Micro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.5 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Command A does, with 256K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Command A share?
19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Command A has 24.