Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs GLM-5V-Turbo
GLM-5V-Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 31× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-5V-Turbo's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and GLM-5V-Turbo in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GLM-5V-Turbo leads 62.5 to 39.5.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $1.20 / $4 for GLM-5V-Turbo.
- GLM-5V-Turbo accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-5V-Turbo | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Z.ai (Zhipu) |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 43.8 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2026-04-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | 200K |
| Max output | 10K | 131K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | $1.20 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | $4 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 19 |
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Category by category
Coding GLM-5V-Turbo leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), GLM-5V-Turbo: 42.1 (#111)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-5V-Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1466 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1401 |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), GLM-5V-Turbo: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-5V-Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning GLM-5V-Turbo leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), GLM-5V-Turbo: 29.7 (#89)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-5V-Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1443 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math GLM-5V-Turbo leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), GLM-5V-Turbo: 39.4 (#106)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-5V-Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1441 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
Knowledge GLM-5V-Turbo leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), GLM-5V-Turbo: 40.6 (#117)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-5V-Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1452 |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: —, GLM-5V-Turbo: 40.9 (#42)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-5V-Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1264 |
| LMArena Document | — | 1416 |
Multilingual GLM-5V-Turbo leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), GLM-5V-Turbo: 53.0 (#73)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-5V-Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1420 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1488 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1444 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1423 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1396 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1431 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1450 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
Instruction Following GLM-5V-Turbo leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), GLM-5V-Turbo: 75.0 (#80)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-5V-Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1423 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
Long Context GLM-5V-Turbo leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), GLM-5V-Turbo: 44.0 (#80)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-5V-Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1438 |
Writing & Preference GLM-5V-Turbo leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), GLM-5V-Turbo: 62.5 (#73)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GLM-5V-Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1437 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1416 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1432 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than GLM-5V-Turbo?
GLM-5V-Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 31× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-5V-Turbo's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or GLM-5V-Turbo?
Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; GLM-5V-Turbo lists at $1.20 and $4.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or GLM-5V-Turbo better for coding?
GLM-5V-Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.1 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
GLM-5V-Turbo does, with 200K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and GLM-5V-Turbo share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and GLM-5V-Turbo has 19.