Model comparison

Amazon Nova Micro vs Phi-3.5-mini

Amazon Nova Micro has enough public results to be ranked (#290); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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Amazon Nova Micro Amazon

29.9

Rank #290 Confirmed

Phi-3.5-mini Microsoft

36.4

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in coding, where Phi-3.5-mini leads 34.0 to 30.0.
  • Phi-3.5-mini has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova Micro and Phi-3.5-mini specifications
Amazon Nova MicroPhi-3.5-mini
ProviderAmazonMicrosoft
Noometry Index29.936.4
Released2024-12-032024-08-16
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K—
Max output10K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.035—
Output $ / M tokens$0.14—
Results tracked325

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Category by category

Coding Phi-3.5-mini leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 30.0 (#289), Phi-3.5-mini: 34.0 (#231)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroPhi-3.5-mini
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.8%
LiveBench Coding20.2%—
LMArena Coding1218—
BigCodeBench Complete—38.5%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 21.9 (#125), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroPhi-3.5-mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard22.3%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 16.7 (#289), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroPhi-3.5-mini
LiveBench Reasoning25.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1191—
LiveBench Data Analysis34%—
LiveBench29.6%—
PIQA—81%

Math Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 24.9 (#252), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroPhi-3.5-mini
Omni-MATH21.4%—
LiveBench Math34.5%—
LMArena Math1206—
GSM8K—86.2%

Knowledge Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 29.2 (#231), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroPhi-3.5-mini
MMLU-Pro51.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.5%—
GPQA (HELM)38.3%—
LMArena Expert1184—
BoolQ—78%
MMLU70.8%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.7 (#234), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Non-English1186—
LMArena Chinese1209—
LMArena French1237—
LMArena German1192—
LMArena Japanese1154—
LMArena Korean1150—
LMArena Russian1185—
LMArena Spanish1225—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 56.6 (#267), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroPhi-3.5-mini
LiveBench Instruction Following48%—
IFEval76%—
LMArena Instruction Following1174—

Long Context Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#224), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Longer Query1206—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 39.7 (#242), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Text1208—
LMArena Creative Writing1172—
WildBench74.3%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1178—
LiveBench Language15.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Phi-3.5-mini?

Amazon Nova Micro has enough public results to be ranked (#290); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Amazon Nova Micro or Phi-3.5-mini better for coding?

Phi-3.5-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 30.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Phi-3.5-mini share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-mini has 5.

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