Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Mercury
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and Mercury in 6 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Mercury leads 65.3 to 56.6.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Mercury | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 37.3 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| 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 Mercury leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.0 (#289), Mercury: 38.1 (#164)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1323 |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 21.9 (#125), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Amazon Nova Micro: 16.7 (#289), Mercury: 16.8 (#288)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1284 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 21.6% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 24.9 (#252), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.2 (#231), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multilingual Mercury leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.7 (#234), Mercury: 41.7 (#201)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1259 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | — |
| LMArena French | 1237 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |
Instruction Following Mercury leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.6 (#267), Mercury: 65.3 (#220)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1238 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
Long Context Mercury leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#224), Mercury: 38.3 (#193)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1206 | 1264 |
Writing & Preference Mercury leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.7 (#242), Mercury: 46.2 (#216)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1186 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1283 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Mercury?
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Mercury better for coding?
Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 30.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Mercury share?
8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Mercury has 9.