Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs GPT-4.1
GPT-4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 57× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-4.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 2 categories and GPT-4.1 in 7 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4.1 leads 57.6 to 39.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 22.3% for Amazon Nova Micro and 54% for GPT-4.1.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $8 for GPT-4.1.
- GPT-4.1 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 35.9 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2025-04-14 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | 1.05M |
| Max output | 10K | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | $8 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 52 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-4.1 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), GPT-4.1: 34.4 (#238)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1391 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 48.5% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 39.6% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 52.4% |
| WeirdML | — | 39% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| CadEval | — | 42% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 558.1 |
Agentic & Tool Use GPT-4.1 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), GPT-4.1: 34.7 (#43)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | 54% |
Reasoning Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), GPT-4.1: 11.7 (#339)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1384 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.4% |
| SimpleBench | — | 27% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 52.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 5.5% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 6% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 2.2% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| DTBench | — | 68.3% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LMCA | — | 25.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 136.78 |
| ForecastBench | — | 61.5 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), GPT-4.1: 22.3 (#280)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | 47.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1370 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 6% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 38.3% |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 83% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 5.5% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 0% |
Knowledge GPT-4.1 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), GPT-4.1: 37.1 (#160)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | 81.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | 5.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | 65.9% |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1364 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 66.9% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 5.4% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 31.1% |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: —, GPT-4.1: 38.2 (#67)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1211 |
| GeoBench | — | 72% |
Multilingual GPT-4.1 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), GPT-4.1: 49.4 (#133)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1370 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1382 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1382 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1381 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1319 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1339 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1377 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1376 |
Instruction Following GPT-4.1 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), GPT-4.1: 71.3 (#153)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 76% | 83.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1367 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
Long Context GPT-4.1 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), GPT-4.1: 40.0 (#163)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1385 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 63.9% |
Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), GPT-4.1: 57.6 (#125)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1383 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1363 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | 85.4% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1398 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1420 |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than GPT-4.1?
GPT-4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 57× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-4.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or GPT-4.1?
Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; GPT-4.1 lists at $2 and $8.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or GPT-4.1 better for coding?
GPT-4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
GPT-4.1 does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and GPT-4.1 share?
24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 has 52.