Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Gemma 4 26B A4B IT
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 1.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemma 4 26B A4B IT's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads 47.6 to 26.9.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.0675 / $0.23 for Gemma 4 26B A4B IT.
- Gemma 4 26B A4B IT accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.
- Gemma 4 26B A4B IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 43.5 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2026-04-02 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 262K |
| Max output | 10K | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | $0.0675 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | $0.23 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 28 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 39.0 (#164)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1447 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1359 |
| SciCode | — | 40% |
| WeirdML | — | 35.2% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 927.17 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 21.8 (#213)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1439 |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 6% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| DTBench | — | 74.9% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LMCA | — | 29.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 141.85 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 47.6 (#67)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1470 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 82.2% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
Knowledge Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 45.7 (#85)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | 5.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1447 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 73.2% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: —, Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 40.6 (#46)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1260 |
Multilingual Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 53.1 (#71)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1421 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1495 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1460 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1434 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1417 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
Instruction Following Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 74.8 (#82)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1420 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
Long Context Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 43.6 (#91)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1428 |
Writing & Preference Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 58.6 (#115)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1434 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1402 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1441 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1305 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Gemma 4 26B A4B IT?
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 1.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemma 4 26B A4B IT's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Gemma 4 26B A4B IT?
Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Gemma 4 26B A4B IT lists at $0.0675 and $0.23.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Gemma 4 26B A4B IT better for coding?
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.0 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT does, with 262K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT share?
15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT has 28.