Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Gemma 2B
Amazon Nova Micro and Gemma 2B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 29.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 5 categories and Gemma 2B in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 39.5 to 24.0.
- Gemma 2B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 2B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 29.6 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-02-21 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | — |
| Results tracked | 32 | 23 |
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Category by category
Coding Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1010 |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 20.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 34.1% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Gemma 2B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning Gemma 2B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 989 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 35.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 94.2 |
| HellaSwag | — | 71.4% |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
| PIQA | — | 77.3% |
| WinoGrande | — | 65.4% |
Math Gemma 2B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1009 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 17.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Gemma 2B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 70.8% | 42.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 42.1% |
| BoolQ | — | 69.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 53.2% |
Multilingual Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 958 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 986 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 937 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |
Instruction Following Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 970 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
Long Context Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 981 |
Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1002 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 987 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 945 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Gemma 2B?
Amazon Nova Micro and Gemma 2B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 29.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Gemma 2B better for coding?
Amazon Nova Micro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.5 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Gemma 2B share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2B has 23.