Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs GLM-4.6
GLM-4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.4 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 16× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-4.6's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and GLM-4.6 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GLM-4.6 leads 61.1 to 39.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 22.3% for Amazon Nova Micro and 72.4% for GLM-4.6.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.60 / $2.20 for GLM-4.6.
- GLM-4.6 accepts more context: 205K tokens versus 128K.
- GLM-4.6 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Z.ai (Zhipu) |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 41.4 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2025-09-30 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 205K |
| Max output | 10K | 131K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | $0.60 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | $2.20 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 29 |
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Category by category
Coding GLM-4.6 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), GLM-4.6: 40.1 (#148)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1449 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 55.4% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1340 |
| SciCode | — | 38.4% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 340.82 |
Agentic & Tool Use GLM-4.6 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), GLM-4.6: 32.3 (#66)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | 72.4% |
| Terminal-Bench | — | 24.5% |
Reasoning GLM-4.6 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), GLM-4.6: 23.7 (#172)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1440 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 47.4% |
| CritPt | — | 1.1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math GLM-4.6 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), GLM-4.6: 39.1 (#111)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1432 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 3.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 2.1% |
Knowledge GLM-4.6 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), GLM-4.6: 40.2 (#124)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | 9.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1431 |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multilingual GLM-4.6 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), GLM-4.6: 53.5 (#66)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1426 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1499 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1459 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1447 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1393 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1400 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1419 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1436 |
Instruction Following GLM-4.6 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), GLM-4.6: 74.3 (#98)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1410 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
Long Context GLM-4.6 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), GLM-4.6: 43.4 (#94)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1422 |
Writing & Preference GLM-4.6 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), GLM-4.6: 61.1 (#90)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1440 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1411 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1427 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1411 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than GLM-4.6?
GLM-4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.4 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 16× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-4.6's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or GLM-4.6?
Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; GLM-4.6 lists at $0.60 and $2.20.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or GLM-4.6 better for coding?
GLM-4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.1 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
GLM-4.6 does, with 205K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and GLM-4.6 share?
19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.6 has 29.