Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Palm 2
Amazon Nova Micro and Palm 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 5 categories and Palm 2 in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 36.5 to 20.9.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Palm 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 30.0 |
| 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 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Palm 2: 29.0 (#311)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 994 |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Palm 2: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning Palm 2 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Palm 2: 19.1 (#271)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1005 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Palm 2 leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Palm 2: 30.8 (#231)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1049 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Palm 2: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| 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), Palm 2: 20.9 (#295)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 916 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 887 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |
Instruction Following Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Palm 2: 51.0 (#296)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1010 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
Long Context Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Palm 2: 30.8 (#285)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1010 |
Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Palm 2: 25.6 (#304)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1027 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 991 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 994 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Palm 2?
Amazon Nova Micro and Palm 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Palm 2 better for coding?
Amazon Nova Micro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.5 versus 29.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Palm 2 share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.