Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Nova Premier 1.0
Nova Premier 1.0 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 82× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Nova Premier 1.0's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and Nova Premier 1.0 in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Nova Premier 1.0 leads 51.0 to 39.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 51.1% for Amazon Nova Micro and 72.6% for Nova Premier 1.0.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $12.50 for Nova Premier 1.0.
- Nova Premier 1.0 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Nova Premier 1.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Amazon |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 38.3 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2025-04-30 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | 1M |
| Max output | 10K | 10K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | $2.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | $12.50 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Nova Premier 1.0: 23.0 (#185)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 44.8% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Nova Premier 1.0: 33.8 (#199)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | 35% |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |
Knowledge Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Nova Premier 1.0: 35.8 (#180)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | 72.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | 51.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Nova Premier 1.0: 66.8 (#204)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 76% | 80.3% |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | — |
Writing & Preference Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Nova Premier 1.0: 51.0 (#178)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| WildBench | 74.3% | 78.8% |
| LMArena Text | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Nova Premier 1.0?
Nova Premier 1.0 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 82× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Nova Premier 1.0's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Nova Premier 1.0?
Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Nova Premier 1.0 lists at $2.50 and $12.50.
Which has the bigger context window?
Nova Premier 1.0 does, with 1M tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Nova Premier 1.0 share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Nova Premier 1.0 has 6.