Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs GPT-4o mini
Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.4 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 30 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 30 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 5 categories and GPT-4o mini in 4 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 26.9 to 10.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Coding: 20.2% for Amazon Nova Micro and 43.1% for GPT-4o mini.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.15 / $0.60 for GPT-4o mini.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4o mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 25.5 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-07-18 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | 128K |
| Max output | 10K | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | $0.15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | $0.60 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 60 |
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Category by category
Coding Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), GPT-4o mini: 22.0 (#335)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | 43.1% |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1290 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 3.6% |
| WeirdML | — | 11.8% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 46.1% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 57.4% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 83.5% |
| MBPP+ | — | 72.2% |
Agentic & Tool Use GPT-4o mini leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), GPT-4o mini: 27.5 (#101)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
| BALROG | — | 17.4% |
Reasoning Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), GPT-4o mini: 8.7 (#347)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | 32.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1267 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | 50% |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | 41.3% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| SimpleBench | — | 10.7% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 28.8% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 12% |
| DTBench | — | 54.4% |
| LMCA | — | 10.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 126.56 |
| PIQA | — | 88.7% |
Math Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), GPT-4o mini: 10.4 (#314)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | 28% |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | 36.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1267 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 0.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 6.9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 52.6% |
| GSM8K | — | 91.3% |
Knowledge Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), GPT-4o mini: 17.7 (#284)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | 60.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | 36.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1235 |
| MMLU | 70.8% | 81.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 37.7% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 8.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 37.2% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| BoolQ | — | 88.7% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: —, GPT-4o mini: 25.9 (#122)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1066 |
| Video-MME | — | 64.8% |
| GeoBench | — | 64% |
| VPCT | — | 34% |
Multilingual GPT-4o mini leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), GPT-4o mini: 42.0 (#199)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1266 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1265 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1297 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1272 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1216 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1195 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1275 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1276 |
Instruction Following GPT-4o mini leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), GPT-4o mini: 61.9 (#239)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | 56.8% |
| IFEval | 76% | 78.2% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1258 |
Long Context GPT-4o mini leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), GPT-4o mini: 39.1 (#186)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1289 |
Writing & Preference Too close to call
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), GPT-4o mini: 39.5 (#248)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1286 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1268 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | 79.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1285 |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | 28.6% |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 67.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 873 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than GPT-4o mini?
Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.4 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or GPT-4o mini?
Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; GPT-4o mini lists at $0.15 and $0.60.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or GPT-4o mini better for coding?
Amazon Nova Micro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.5 versus 22.0 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 128K tokens.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and GPT-4o mini share?
30 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4o mini has 60.