Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs GLM-4.6V
GLM-4.6V is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 7.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-4.6V's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and GLM-4.6V in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GLM-4.6V leads 56.8 to 39.7.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $0.90 for GLM-4.6V.
- GLM-4.6V has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6V | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Z.ai (Zhipu) |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 40.9 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2025-12-08 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 128K |
| Max output | 10K | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | $0.90 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 12 |
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Category by category
Coding GLM-4.6V leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.0 (#289), GLM-4.6V: 40.2 (#128)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6V |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1390 |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 21.9 (#125), GLM-4.6V: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6V |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning GLM-4.6V leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 16.7 (#289), GLM-4.6V: 26.5 (#117)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6V |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1368 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 24.9 (#252), GLM-4.6V: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6V |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |
Knowledge GLM-4.6V leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.2 (#231), GLM-4.6V: 37.4 (#148)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6V |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1372 |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: —, GLM-4.6V: 34.2 (#83)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6V |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1164 |
Multilingual GLM-4.6V leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.7 (#234), GLM-4.6V: 48.8 (#135)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6V |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1359 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1426 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1341 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |
Instruction Following GLM-4.6V leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.6 (#267), GLM-4.6V: 71.6 (#145)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6V |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1351 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
Long Context GLM-4.6V leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#224), GLM-4.6V: 41.3 (#138)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6V |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1206 | 1358 |
Writing & Preference GLM-4.6V leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.7 (#242), GLM-4.6V: 56.8 (#132)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-4.6V |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1377 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1347 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1359 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than GLM-4.6V?
GLM-4.6V is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 7.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-4.6V's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or GLM-4.6V?
Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; GLM-4.6V lists at $0.30 and $0.90.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or GLM-4.6V better for coding?
GLM-4.6V scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.2 versus 30.0 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 128K tokens.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and GLM-4.6V share?
11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.6V has 12.