Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs GLM-4.5V
GLM-4.5V is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 15× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-4.5V's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and GLM-4.5V in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GLM-4.5V leads 52.5 to 39.5.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.60 / $1.80 for GLM-4.5V.
- Amazon Nova Micro accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 64K.
- GLM-4.5V has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.5V | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Z.ai (Zhipu) |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 39.8 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2025-08-11 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 64K |
| Max output | 10K | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | $0.60 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | $1.80 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding GLM-4.5V leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), GLM-4.5V: 39.5 (#155)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.5V |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1347 |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), GLM-4.5V: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.5V |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning GLM-4.5V leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), GLM-4.5V: 27.4 (#119)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.5V |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1334 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 59.8% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math GLM-4.5V leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), GLM-4.5V: 37.4 (#159)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.5V |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1354 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
Knowledge GLM-4.5V leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), GLM-4.5V: 37.5 (#156)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.5V |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1353 |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: —, GLM-4.5V: 34.3 (#92)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.5V |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1154 |
Multilingual GLM-4.5V leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), GLM-4.5V: 44.6 (#177)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.5V |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1303 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1337 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1298 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1336 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
Instruction Following GLM-4.5V leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), GLM-4.5V: 69.2 (#175)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.5V |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1311 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
Long Context GLM-4.5V leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), GLM-4.5V: 39.6 (#171)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.5V |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1304 |
Writing & Preference GLM-4.5V leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), GLM-4.5V: 52.5 (#170)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.5V |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1333 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1295 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1332 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than GLM-4.5V?
GLM-4.5V is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 15× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-4.5V's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or GLM-4.5V?
Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; GLM-4.5V lists at $0.60 and $1.80.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or GLM-4.5V better for coding?
GLM-4.5V scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.5 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Amazon Nova Micro does, with 128K tokens against 64K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and GLM-4.5V share?
13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.5V has 15.