Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Grok Build 0.1
Grok Build 0.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.8 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 20× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Grok Build 0.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
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Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok Build 0.1 leads 31.3 to 16.7.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $1 / $2 for Grok Build 0.1.
- Grok Build 0.1 accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Grok Build 0.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 35.8 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2026-04-16 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | 256K |
| Max output | 10K | 256K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | $1 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | $2 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Grok Build 0.1 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.0 (#289), Grok Build 0.1: 42.5 (#90)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Grok Build 0.1 |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 50.2% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call
Amazon Nova Micro: 21.9 (#125), Grok Build 0.1: 22.5 (#122)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Grok Build 0.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
| GBAEval | — | 2.4% |
Reasoning Grok Build 0.1 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 16.7 (#289), Grok Build 0.1: 31.3 (#73)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Grok Build 0.1 |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 9.1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 24.9 (#252), Grok Build 0.1: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Grok Build 0.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.2 (#231), Grok Build 0.1: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Grok Build 0.1 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.7 (#234), Grok Build 0.1: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Grok Build 0.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | — |
| LMArena French | 1237 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.6 (#267), Grok Build 0.1: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Grok Build 0.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#224), Grok Build 0.1: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Grok Build 0.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1206 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.7 (#242), Grok Build 0.1: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Grok Build 0.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | — |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Grok Build 0.1?
Grok Build 0.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.8 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 20× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Grok Build 0.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Grok Build 0.1?
Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Grok Build 0.1 lists at $1 and $2.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Grok Build 0.1 better for coding?
Grok Build 0.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.5 versus 30.0 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Grok Build 0.1 does, with 256K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Grok Build 0.1 share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Grok Build 0.1 has 3.