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Model comparison

Amazon Nova Micro vs GPT-4.1 nano

Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.4 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Micro Amazon

30.4

Rank #294 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 nano OpenAI

27.9

Rank #327 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 4 categories and GPT-4.1 nano in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 36.5 to 23.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Omni-MATH: 21.4% for Amazon Nova Micro and 36.7% for GPT-4.1 nano.
  • Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.10 / $0.40 for GPT-4.1 nano.
  • GPT-4.1 nano accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Amazon Nova MicroGPT-4.1 nano
ProviderAmazonOpenAI
Noometry Index30.427.9
Released2024-12-032025-04-14
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window128K1.05M
Max output10K33K
Input $ / M tokens$0.035$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$0.14$0.40
Results tracked3238

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Category by category

Coding Amazon Nova Micro leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), GPT-4.1 nano: 24.1 (#330)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Coding12181306
Aider Polyglot—8.9%
SciCode—25.9%
WeirdML—19%
LiveBench Coding20.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-4.1 nano leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), GPT-4.1 nano: 26.5 (#104)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGPT-4.1 nano
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard22.3%33%

Reasoning Amazon Nova Micro leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), GPT-4.1 nano: 8.5 (#349)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Hard Prompts11911286
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—33.3%
ARC-AGI-1—0%
CritPt—0%
LiveBench Reasoning25.1%—
DTBench—52.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis34%—
LMCA—5.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—129.62
LiveBench29.6%—

Math Too close to call

Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), GPT-4.1 nano: 26.9 (#252)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGPT-4.1 nano
Omni-MATH21.4%36.7%
LMArena Math12061274
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—28.9%
LiveBench Math34.5%—
MATH Level 5—70%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1%

Knowledge Amazon Nova Micro leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), GPT-4.1 nano: 21.8 (#273)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGPT-4.1 nano
MMLU-Pro51.1%55%
GPQA (HELM)38.3%50.7%
LMArena Expert11841272
GPQA Diamond—48.9%
SimpleQA Verified—6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.5%—
MMLU70.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 29.2 (#113)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Vision—1063

Multilingual GPT-4.1 nano leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), GPT-4.1 nano: 41.6 (#205)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Non-English11861260
LMArena Chinese12091270
LMArena German11921288
LMArena Japanese11541198
LMArena Russian11851261
LMArena French1238—
LMArena Korean1150—
LMArena Spanish1225—

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 nano leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), GPT-4.1 nano: 67.8 (#193)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGPT-4.1 nano
IFEval76%84.3%
LMArena Instruction Following11741267
LiveBench Instruction Following48%—

Long Context Amazon Nova Micro leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), GPT-4.1 nano: 23.7 (#296)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Longer Query12051283
Fiction.LiveBench—25%

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), GPT-4.1 nano: 40.5 (#243)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Text12081285
LMArena Creative Writing11721260
WildBench74.3%81.2%
LMArena Multi-Turn11781277
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—946
LiveBench Language15.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Micro better than GPT-4.1 nano?

Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.4 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or GPT-4.1 nano?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; GPT-4.1 nano lists at $0.10 and $0.40.

Is Amazon Nova Micro or GPT-4.1 nano better for coding?

Amazon Nova Micro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.5 versus 24.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-4.1 nano does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and GPT-4.1 nano share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 nano has 38.

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