Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Qwen3-1.7B
Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen3-1.7B in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 29.2 to 19.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 22.3% for Amazon Nova Micro and 28.4% for Qwen3-1.7B.
- Qwen3-1.7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-1.7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 26.2 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2025-04-29 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | — |
| Results tracked | 32 | 4 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.0 (#289), Qwen3-1.7B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3-1.7B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 21.9 (#125), Qwen3-1.7B: 24.5 (#108)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | 28.4% |
Reasoning Qwen3-1.7B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 16.7 (#289), Qwen3-1.7B: 18.5 (#263)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 24.9 (#252), Qwen3-1.7B: 15.4 (#288)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 8.1% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |
Knowledge Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.2 (#231), Qwen3-1.7B: 19.6 (#273)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 38% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.7 (#234), Qwen3-1.7B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | — |
| LMArena French | 1237 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.6 (#267), Qwen3-1.7B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#224), Qwen3-1.7B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1206 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.7 (#242), Qwen3-1.7B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | — |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Qwen3-1.7B?
Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Qwen3-1.7B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-1.7B has 4.