Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Gemma 3 1B
Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.4 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 3 categories and Gemma 3 1B in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 29.6 to 7.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 22.3% for Amazon Nova Micro and 7.2% for Gemma 3 1B.
- Gemma 3 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 3 1B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 21.1 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2025-03-12 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | — |
| Results tracked | 32 | 4 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Gemma 3 1B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 3 1B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Gemma 3 1B: 13.7 (#152)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 3 1B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | 7.2% |
Reasoning Gemma 3 1B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Gemma 3 1B: 19.2 (#264)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 3 1B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Gemma 3 1B: 10.2 (#316)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 3 1B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 1.1% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |
Knowledge Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Gemma 3 1B: 7.0 (#314)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 3 1B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 19.9% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Gemma 3 1B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 3 1B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | — |
| LMArena French | 1238 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Gemma 3 1B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 3 1B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Gemma 3 1B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 3 1B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Gemma 3 1B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 3 1B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | — |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Gemma 3 1B?
Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.4 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Gemma 3 1B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 1B has 4.