Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Gemma 1.1 7b IT
Amazon Nova Micro and Gemma 1.1 7b IT score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 31.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 5 categories and Gemma 1.1 7b IT in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 39.5 to 30.4.
- Gemma 1.1 7b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 1.1 7b IT | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 31.3 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | — |
| Results tracked | 32 | 19 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemma 1.1 7b IT leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 31.5 (#284)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 1.1 7b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1084 |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 35.4% |
| MBPP+ | — | 45% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 1.1 7b IT |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning Gemma 1.1 7b IT leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 20.5 (#238)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 1.1 7b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1071 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Gemma 1.1 7b IT leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 32.0 (#220)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 1.1 7b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1107 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
Knowledge Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 28.3 (#247)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 1.1 7b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1039 |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multilingual Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 28.1 (#273)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 1.1 7b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1052 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1061 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1065 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1054 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 971 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 988 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1046 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1049 |
Instruction Following Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 54.0 (#283)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 1.1 7b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1057 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
Long Context Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 32.1 (#272)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 1.1 7b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1056 |
Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 30.4 (#288)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 1.1 7b IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1094 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1060 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1040 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Gemma 1.1 7b IT?
Amazon Nova Micro and Gemma 1.1 7b IT score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 31.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Gemma 1.1 7b IT better for coding?
Gemma 1.1 7b IT scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.5 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Gemma 1.1 7b IT share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 1.1 7b IT has 19.