Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Llama 3.1-405B
Amazon Nova Micro and Llama 3.1-405B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 30.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 3.1-405B in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Llama 3.1-405B leads 65.9 to 56.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 51.1% for Amazon Nova Micro and 72.3% for Llama 3.1-405B.
- Llama 3.1-405B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.1-405B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 30.7 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-07-23 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| 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 Llama 3.1-405B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Llama 3.1-405B: 33.1 (#262)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1291 |
| WeirdML | — | 21.4% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Llama 3.1-405B: 21.0 (#140)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | — | 7.4% |
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Llama 3.1-405B: 16.8 (#300)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1269 |
| SimpleBench | — | 23% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 45% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| DTBench | — | 61.4% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 82.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 128.75 |
| ForecastBench | — | 59.9 |
| HellaSwag | — | 89.2% |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
| PIQA | — | 85.9% |
| WinoGrande | — | 89.2% |
Math Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Llama 3.1-405B: 18.4 (#290)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | 24.9% |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1281 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 9.7% |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 49.8% |
Knowledge Too close to call
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Llama 3.1-405B: 30.4 (#227)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | 72.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | 52.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1243 |
| MMLU | 70.8% | 84.5% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 50.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 17.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 95.3% |
| TriviaQA | — | 82.7% |
Multilingual Llama 3.1-405B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Llama 3.1-405B: 40.7 (#214)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1248 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1242 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1279 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1252 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1208 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1184 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1265 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1260 |
Instruction Following Llama 3.1-405B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Llama 3.1-405B: 65.9 (#214)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 76% | 81.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1259 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
Long Context Llama 3.1-405B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Llama 3.1-405B: 38.4 (#197)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1266 |
Writing & Preference Too close to call
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Llama 3.1-405B: 38.9 (#251)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1284 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1262 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | 78.3% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1297 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 870 |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Llama 3.1-405B?
Amazon Nova Micro and Llama 3.1-405B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 30.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Llama 3.1-405B better for coding?
Llama 3.1-405B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.1 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Llama 3.1-405B share?
23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-405B has 42.