Model comparison

Amazon Nova Micro vs phi-3-medium 14B

Amazon Nova Micro and phi-3-medium 14B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 29.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Micro Amazon

30.4

Rank #294 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 1 category and phi-3-medium 14B in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 29.6 to 9.1.
  • phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova Micro and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
Amazon Nova Microphi-3-medium 14B
ProviderAmazonMicrosoft
Noometry Index30.429.7
Released2024-12-032024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K—
Max output10K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.035—
Output $ / M tokens$0.14—
Results tracked3213

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Category by category

Coding phi-3-medium 14B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova Microphi-3-medium 14B
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LiveBench Coding20.2%—
LMArena Coding1218—
BigCodeBench Complete—48.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova Microphi-3-medium 14B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard22.3%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova Microphi-3-medium 14B
LiveBench Reasoning25.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1191—
LiveBench Data Analysis34%—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—121.23
HellaSwag—82.4%
LiveBench29.6%—
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math Too close to call

Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova Microphi-3-medium 14B
Omni-MATH21.4%—
LiveBench Math34.5%—
LMArena Math1206—
MATH Level 5—17.6%

Knowledge Amazon Nova Micro leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova Microphi-3-medium 14B
MMLU70.8%78%
GPQA Diamond—27.6%
MMLU-Pro51.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.5%—
GPQA (HELM)38.3%—
LMArena Expert1184—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multilingual Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova Microphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Non-English1186—
LMArena Chinese1209—
LMArena French1238—
LMArena German1192—
LMArena Japanese1154—
LMArena Korean1150—
LMArena Russian1185—
LMArena Spanish1225—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova Microphi-3-medium 14B
LiveBench Instruction Following48%—
IFEval76%—
LMArena Instruction Following1174—

Long Context Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova Microphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Longer Query1205—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova Microphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Text1208—
LMArena Creative Writing1172—
WildBench74.3%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1178—
LiveBench Language15.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Micro better than phi-3-medium 14B?

Amazon Nova Micro and phi-3-medium 14B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 29.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Amazon Nova Micro or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

phi-3-medium 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.8 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and phi-3-medium 14B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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