Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Llama 3.2 90B
Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.4 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 2 categories and Llama 3.2 90B in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 26.9 to 11.1.
- Llama 3.2 90B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 90B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 27.5 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-09-24 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | — |
| Results tracked | 32 | 9 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Llama 3.2 90B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Llama 3.2 90B: 30.0 (#80)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
| BALROG | — | 27.3% |
Reasoning Llama 3.2 90B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#217)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.4% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 125.5 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Llama 3.2 90B: 11.1 (#308)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.6% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 39.4% |
Knowledge Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#274)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 70.8% | 80.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 41% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: —, Llama 3.2 90B: 25.4 (#124)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1000 |
| GeoBench | — | 52% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| 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), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Llama 3.2 90B?
Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.4 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Llama 3.2 90B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.