Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) in 7 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 66.8 to 56.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 51.1% for Amazon Nova Micro and 67.8% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024).
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 33.2 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-05-14 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | — |
| Results tracked | 32 | 42 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1261 |
| WeirdML | — | 24.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 43.5% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 55.1% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 75.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 67.5% |
Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
| BALROG | — | 14.6% |
Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1257 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| DTBench | — | 53.8% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 129.36 |
| ForecastBench | — | 53.9 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
| PIQA | — | 87.5% |
Math Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | 30.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1269 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 16.3% |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 61.9% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0% |
| GSM8K | — | 82.4% |
Knowledge Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | 67.8% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | 43.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1233 |
| MMLU | 70.8% | 77.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| BoolQ | — | 85.8% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1141 |
| Video-MME | — | 70.3% |
| GeoBench | — | 76% |
Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1278 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1295 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1258 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1262 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1252 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1221 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1288 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1243 |
Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 76% | 83.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1258 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1284 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1285 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | 79.2% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1253 |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)?
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better for coding?
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) share?
23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42.