Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Qwen-14B
Qwen-14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen-14B in 3 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 39.5 to 27.6.
- Qwen-14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen-14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 31.4 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2023-09-24 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | — |
| Results tracked | 32 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#288)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1071 |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Qwen-14B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning Qwen-14B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Qwen-14B: 19.6 (#257)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1027 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 55% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 113.03 |
| LAMBADA | — | 71.1% |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
| PIQA | — | 79.9% |
Math Qwen-14B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#227)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1068 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 61.3% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Qwen-14B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 70.8% | 66.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 84.4% |
| BoolQ | — | 86.2% |
Multilingual Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Qwen-14B: 27.5 (#275)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1041 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1077 |
| 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), Qwen-14B: 52.4 (#289)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1031 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
Long Context Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#280)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1028 |
Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Qwen-14B: 27.6 (#299)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1051 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1028 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1022 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Qwen-14B?
Qwen-14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Qwen-14B better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (30.5 vs 31.2); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Qwen-14B share?
11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-14B has 18.