Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Olmo 7b Instruct
Amazon Nova Micro and Olmo 7b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 30.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)Summary
- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 4 categories and Olmo 7b Instruct in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 39.5 to 25.8.
- Olmo 7b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Olmo 7b Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 30.3 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | — |
| Results tracked | 32 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Olmo 7b Instruct: 29.6 (#303)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1016 |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Olmo 7b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning Olmo 7b Instruct leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Olmo 7b Instruct: 18.8 (#274)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 993 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Olmo 7b Instruct leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Olmo 7b Instruct: 30.2 (#237)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1018 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Olmo 7b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multilingual Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Olmo 7b Instruct: 24.0 (#291)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 977 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1014 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 947 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |
Instruction Following Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Olmo 7b Instruct: 49.0 (#301)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 978 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Olmo 7b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | — |
Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Olmo 7b Instruct: 25.8 (#303)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1032 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 990 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1007 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Olmo 7b Instruct?
Amazon Nova Micro and Olmo 7b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 30.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Olmo 7b Instruct better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (30.5 vs 29.6); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Olmo 7b Instruct share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 7b Instruct has 10.