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Model comparison

Amazon Nova Micro vs Llama 4 Scout

Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.4 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Micro Amazon

30.4

Rank #294 Confirmed

Llama 4 Scout Meta

27.7

Rank #330 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 5 categories and Llama 4 Scout in 4 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 30.5 to 20.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 51.1% for Amazon Nova Micro and 74.2% for Llama 4 Scout.
  • Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.10 / $0.30 for Llama 4 Scout.
  • Llama 4 Scout has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova MicroLlama 4 Scout
ProviderAmazonMeta
Noometry Index30.427.7
Released2024-12-032025-04-05
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K128K
Max output10K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.035$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$0.14$0.30
Results tracked3243

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Category by category

Coding Amazon Nova Micro leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Llama 4 Scout: 20.2 (#339)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Coding12181286
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—9.1%
SciCode—17%
LiveBench Coding20.2%—
BigCodeBench Complete—43.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Llama 4 Scout leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Llama 4 Scout: 24.6 (#119)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroLlama 4 Scout
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard22.3%28.1%

Reasoning Amazon Nova Micro leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Llama 4 Scout: 9.1 (#345)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Hard Prompts11911266
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—36.9%
ARC-AGI-1—0.5%
CritPt—0%
LiveBench Reasoning25.1%—
DTBench—57.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis34%—
LMCA—12%
Epoch Capabilities Index—129.64
ForecastBench—57.5
LiveBench29.6%—

Math Amazon Nova Micro leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Llama 4 Scout: 19.6 (#286)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroLlama 4 Scout
Omni-MATH21.4%37.3%
LMArena Math12061287
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—7.8%
LiveBench Math34.5%—
MATH Level 5—62.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0%

Knowledge Llama 4 Scout leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Llama 4 Scout: 31.9 (#217)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroLlama 4 Scout
MMLU-Pro51.1%74.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.5%7.7%
GPQA (HELM)38.3%50.7%
LMArena Expert11841235
GPQA Diamond—51.8%
MMLU70.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: —, Llama 4 Scout: 32.2 (#102)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Vision—1118
SpatialViz-Bench—34.2%

Multilingual Llama 4 Scout leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Llama 4 Scout: 41.0 (#212)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Non-English11861252
LMArena Chinese12091255
LMArena French12381282
LMArena German11921272
LMArena Japanese11541206
LMArena Korean11501207
LMArena Russian11851263
LMArena Spanish12251278

Instruction Following Llama 4 Scout leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Llama 4 Scout: 65.8 (#217)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroLlama 4 Scout
IFEval76%81.8%
LMArena Instruction Following11741248
LiveBench Instruction Following48%—

Long Context Amazon Nova Micro leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#294)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Longer Query12051265
Fiction.LiveBench—36%

Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Micro leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Llama 4 Scout: 37.0 (#261)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Text12081279
LMArena Creative Writing11721249
WildBench74.3%78%
LMArena Multi-Turn11781280
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—783
LiveBench Language15.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Llama 4 Scout?

Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.4 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Llama 4 Scout?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Llama 4 Scout lists at $0.10 and $0.30.

Is Amazon Nova Micro or Llama 4 Scout better for coding?

Amazon Nova Micro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.5 versus 20.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 128K tokens.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Llama 4 Scout share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Scout has 43.

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