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Model comparison

Amazon Nova Micro vs Gemini 3 Flash Preview

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 18× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3 Flash Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Micro Amazon

30.4

Rank #294 Confirmed

Gemini 3 Flash Preview Google

52.3

Rank #40 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3 Flash Preview in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads 49.2 to 17.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Vectara Hallucination Rate: 5.5% for Amazon Nova Micro and 13.5% for Gemini 3 Flash Preview.
  • Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $3 for Gemini 3 Flash Preview.
  • Gemini 3 Flash Preview accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Amazon Nova MicroGemini 3 Flash Preview
ProviderAmazonGoogle
Noometry Index30.452.3
Released2024-12-032025-12-17
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window128K1.05M
Max output10K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.035$0.50
Output $ / M tokens$0.14$3
Results tracked3259

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 50.9 (#42)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Coding12181460
SWE-bench Verified—75.4%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—75.8%
LMArena WebDev—1439
SWE-bench Multilingual—72.7%
GSO—9.8%
WeirdML—61.6%
LiveBench Coding20.2%—
ALE-Bench—1,367

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 38.7 (#29)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGemini 3 Flash Preview
Terminal-Bench—64.3%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard22.3%—
τ²-bench Airline—82.5%
τ²-bench Banking—27.3%
τ²-bench Retail—76.8%
τ²-bench Telecom—91.2%
DeepResearch Bench—49.8%
BALROG—48.1%
GDP.pdf—10%
LMArena Search—1198
Vending-Bench 2—3,635

Reasoning Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 49.2 (#37)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Hard Prompts11911465
ARC-AGI-2—33.6%
SimpleBench—61.1%
NYT Connections (extended)—83.1%
ARC-AGI-1—84.7%
Chess Puzzles—40%
LiveBench Reasoning25.1%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—26%
DTBench—89.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis34%—
LMCA—43.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—151.8
ForecastBench—58.5
LiveBench29.6%—

Math Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.7 (#55)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Math12061473
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—51.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4—17.1%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—67.6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—95.6%
ProofBench—15%
Omni-MATH21.4%—
LiveBench Math34.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—35.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—4.2%

Knowledge Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 58.8 (#33)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGemini 3 Flash Preview
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.5%13.5%
LMArena Expert11841462
GPQA Diamond—89.4%
SimpleQA Verified—66.8%
MMLU-Pro51.1%—
GPQA (HELM)38.3%—
MMLU70.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: —, Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 45.5 (#16)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Vision—1285
GeoBench—88%
VPCT—72.6%
Blueprint-Bench 2—0%
LMArena Document—1413

Multilingual Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 55.7 (#27)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Non-English11861458
LMArena Chinese12091511
LMArena French12381477
LMArena German11921497
LMArena Japanese11541489
LMArena Korean11501443
LMArena Russian11851480
LMArena Spanish12251469

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 75.7 (#56)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Instruction Following11741437
LiveBench Instruction Following48%—
IFEval76%—

Long Context Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 44.4 (#67)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Longer Query12051452

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 65.5 (#45)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Text12081466
LMArena Creative Writing11721457
LMArena Multi-Turn11781471
WildBench74.3%—
LiveBench Language15.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Gemini 3 Flash Preview?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 18× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3 Flash Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Gemini 3 Flash Preview?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Gemini 3 Flash Preview lists at $0.50 and $3.

Is Amazon Nova Micro or Gemini 3 Flash Preview better for coding?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.9 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Gemini 3 Flash Preview share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3 Flash Preview has 59.

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