Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Qwen1.5-14B
Qwen1.5-14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.7 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen1.5-14B in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 39.5 to 33.6.
- Qwen1.5-14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen1.5-14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 32.7 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-02-04 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | — |
| Results tracked | 32 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen1.5-14B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.1 (#263)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen1.5-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1138 |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Qwen1.5-14B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen1.5-14B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning Qwen1.5-14B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Qwen1.5-14B: 21.4 (#223)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen1.5-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1113 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Qwen1.5-14B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Qwen1.5-14B: 32.4 (#215)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen1.5-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1125 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
Knowledge Too close to call
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Qwen1.5-14B: 29.8 (#232)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen1.5-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1094 |
| MMLU | 70.8% | 68.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
Multilingual Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Qwen1.5-14B: 30.7 (#262)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen1.5-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1095 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1147 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1116 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1043 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1019 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1046 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1085 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Qwen1.5-14B: 56.8 (#271)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen1.5-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1102 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
Long Context Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.7 (#257)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen1.5-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1113 |
Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.6 (#276)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen1.5-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1128 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1091 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1110 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Qwen1.5-14B?
Qwen1.5-14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.7 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Qwen1.5-14B better for coding?
Qwen1.5-14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.1 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Qwen1.5-14B share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-14B has 17.