Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs GPT-4.5
GPT-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.2 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 1 category and GPT-4.5 in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4.5 leads 56.9 to 39.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Coding: 20.2% for Amazon Nova Micro and 75.2% for GPT-4.5.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 37.2 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2025-02-27 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | — |
| Results tracked | 32 | 42 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-4.5 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), GPT-4.5: 42.2 (#109)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | 75.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1396 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 44.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 39.4% |
Agentic & Tool Use GPT-4.5 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), GPT-4.5: 27.9 (#97)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
| Cybench | — | 17.5% |
Reasoning Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), GPT-4.5: 13.9 (#330)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | 71.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1403 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | 64.3% |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | 69% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.8% |
| SimpleBench | — | 34.5% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 10.3% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 3.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 136.74 |
| ForecastBench | — | 61.7 |
Math GPT-4.5 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), GPT-4.5: 32.6 (#211)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | 69.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1412 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 37.8% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 78.6% |
Knowledge GPT-4.5 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), GPT-4.5: 32.5 (#211)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1394 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 68.7% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 5.4% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 13.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: —, GPT-4.5: 37.6 (#71)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1195 |
| VPCT | — | 45% |
Multilingual GPT-4.5 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), GPT-4.5: 52.5 (#83)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1413 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1421 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1418 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1457 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1416 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1392 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1419 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |
Instruction Following GPT-4.5 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), GPT-4.5: 72.6 (#134)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | 72.3% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1404 |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
Long Context GPT-4.5 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), GPT-4.5: 40.4 (#155)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1406 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 63.9% |
Writing & Preference GPT-4.5 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), GPT-4.5: 56.9 (#134)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1417 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1394 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1444 |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | 61.5% |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 75.6% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1258 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than GPT-4.5?
GPT-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.2 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or GPT-4.5 better for coding?
GPT-4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.2 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and GPT-4.5 share?
23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.5 has 42.