Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.0 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIASummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads 69.6 to 56.3.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.05 / $0.20 for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning.
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 40.0 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2026-08-11 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 262K |
| Max output | 10K | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | $0.05 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | $0.20 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 40.4 (#141)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1375 |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 26.8 (#127)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1337 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 37.5 (#155)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1359 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
Knowledge Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 37.5 (#154)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1356 |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multilingual Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 44.0 (#180)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1295 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1359 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1366 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1282 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1206 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1238 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1253 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1345 |
Instruction Following Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 69.6 (#170)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1318 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
Long Context Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.9 (#165)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1314 |
Writing & Preference Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 48.5 (#201)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1327 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1254 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1328 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1280 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.0 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?
Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Nemotron 3.5 Lightning lists at $0.05 and $0.20.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Nemotron 3.5 Lightning better for coding?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning does, with 262K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has 18.