Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Hy4 preview
Hy4 preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 20× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Hy4 preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
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TencentSummary
- The widest gap is in math, where Hy4 preview leads 55.7 to 26.9.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.83 / $2.50 for Hy4 preview.
- Hy4 preview accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
- Hy4 preview has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Hy4 preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Tencent |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 45.3 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2026-08-28 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 1.05M |
| Max output | 10K | 64K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | $0.83 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | $2.50 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Hy4 preview leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Hy4 preview: 51.6 (#38)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Hy4 preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1632 |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Hy4 preview: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Hy4 preview |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning Hy4 preview leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Hy4 preview: 31.9 (#79)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Hy4 preview |
|---|---|---|
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 68.2% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Hy4 preview leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Hy4 preview: 55.7 (#42)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Hy4 preview |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | — | 75% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Hy4 preview: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Hy4 preview |
|---|---|---|
| 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: 36.5 (#239), Hy4 preview: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Hy4 preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | — |
| LMArena French | 1238 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Hy4 preview: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Hy4 preview |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Hy4 preview: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Hy4 preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Hy4 preview: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Hy4 preview |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Hy4 preview?
Hy4 preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 20× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Hy4 preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Hy4 preview?
Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Hy4 preview lists at $0.83 and $2.50.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Hy4 preview better for coding?
Hy4 preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Hy4 preview does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Hy4 preview share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Hy4 preview has 3.