Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Inkling-Small
Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 10× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Inkling-Small's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and Inkling-Small in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Inkling-Small leads 39.0 to 16.7.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.45 / $1.20 for Inkling-Small.
- Inkling-Small accepts more context: 524K tokens versus 128K.
- Inkling-Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Inkling-Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Thinking Machines Lab |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 46.5 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2026-07-15 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 524K |
| Max output | 10K | 1.05M |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | $0.45 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 33 |
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Category by category
Coding Inkling-Small leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.0 (#289), Inkling-Small: 43.3 (#80)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1451 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1408 |
| SciCode | — | 48.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 21.9 (#125), Inkling-Small: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning Inkling-Small leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 16.7 (#289), Inkling-Small: 39.0 (#53)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1424 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 40.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 84% |
| CritPt | — | 8.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 18% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 6% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 150.13 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Inkling-Small leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 24.9 (#252), Inkling-Small: 44.9 (#65)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1453 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 46.3% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 17.1% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 90% |
| ProofBench | — | 6% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
Knowledge Inkling-Small leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.2 (#231), Inkling-Small: 48.3 (#71)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1442 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 88.5% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 19.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: —, Inkling-Small: 38.4 (#59)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1235 |
Multilingual Inkling-Small leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.7 (#234), Inkling-Small: 51.7 (#102)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1400 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1458 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1438 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1412 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1399 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1355 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1392 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1426 |
Instruction Following Inkling-Small leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.6 (#267), Inkling-Small: 73.9 (#112)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1397 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
Long Context Inkling-Small leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#224), Inkling-Small: 42.7 (#113)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1206 | 1401 |
Writing & Preference Inkling-Small leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.7 (#242), Inkling-Small: 59.8 (#102)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1413 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1330 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1420 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1491 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Inkling-Small?
Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 10× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Inkling-Small's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Inkling-Small?
Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Inkling-Small lists at $0.45 and $1.20.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Inkling-Small better for coding?
Inkling-Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.3 versus 30.0 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Inkling-Small does, with 524K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Inkling-Small share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Inkling-Small has 33.