Noometry

Model comparison

Amazon Nova Micro vs Qwen1.5-32B

Amazon Nova Micro and Qwen1.5-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 30.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Micro Amazon

30.4

Rank #294 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.5

Rank #293 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen1.5-32B in 4 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 29.6 to 13.5.
  • Qwen1.5-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova MicroQwen1.5-32B
ProviderAmazonAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.430.5
Released2024-12-032024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K—
Max output10K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.035—
Output $ / M tokens$0.14—
Results tracked3221

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Category by category

Coding Qwen1.5-32B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.7 (#282)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Coding12181155
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.3%
LiveBench Coding20.2%—
BigCodeBench Complete—42%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Qwen1.5-32B: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen1.5-32B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard22.3%—

Reasoning Qwen1.5-32B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Qwen1.5-32B: 21.8 (#212)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts11911130
LiveBench Reasoning25.1%—
LiveBench Data Analysis34%—
LiveBench29.6%—

Math Qwen1.5-32B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Qwen1.5-32B: 33.0 (#207)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Math12061155
Omni-MATH21.4%—
LiveBench Math34.5%—

Knowledge Amazon Nova Micro leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#296)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Expert11841126
MMLU70.8%74.4%
GPQA Diamond—30.7%
MMLU-Pro51.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.5%—
GPQA (HELM)38.3%—

Multilingual Amazon Nova Micro leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.4 (#259)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Non-English11861106
LMArena Chinese12091177
LMArena French12381101
LMArena German11921058
LMArena Japanese11541027
LMArena Korean11501008
LMArena Russian11851073
LMArena Spanish12251089

Instruction Following Qwen1.5-32B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Qwen1.5-32B: 57.7 (#265)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Instruction Following11741116
LiveBench Instruction Following48%—
IFEval76%—

Long Context Amazon Nova Micro leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#246)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Longer Query12051146

Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Micro leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.2 (#271)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Text12081137
LMArena Creative Writing11721083
LMArena Multi-Turn11781140
WildBench74.3%—
LiveBench Language15.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Qwen1.5-32B?

Amazon Nova Micro and Qwen1.5-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 30.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Amazon Nova Micro or Qwen1.5-32B better for coding?

Qwen1.5-32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.7 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Qwen1.5-32B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-32B has 21.

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