Noometry

Model comparison

Amazon Nova Micro vs Qwen3.5 35B-A3B

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 11× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3.5 35B-A3B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Micro Amazon

30.4

Rank #294 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

42.0

Rank #123 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads 57.9 to 39.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Vectara Hallucination Rate: 5.5% for Amazon Nova Micro and 10.5% for Qwen3.5 35B-A3B.
  • Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $2 for Qwen3.5 35B-A3B.
  • Qwen3.5 35B-A3B accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.
  • Qwen3.5 35B-A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova MicroQwen3.5 35B-A3B
ProviderAmazonAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.442.0
Released2024-12-032026-02-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K262K
Max output10K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.035$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$0.14$2
Results tracked3228

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 33.8 (#251)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Coding12181410
LMArena WebDev—1254
SciCode—29.3%
LiveBench Coding20.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen3.5 35B-A3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard22.3%—

Reasoning Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 24.6 (#161)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Hard Prompts11911400
CritPt—0.6%
Chess Puzzles—10%
LiveBench Reasoning25.1%—
DTBench—80%
LiveBench Data Analysis34%—
LMCA—29.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—142.52
LiveBench29.6%—

Math Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 39.9 (#97)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Math12061404
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—56%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—70%
Omni-MATH21.4%—
LiveBench Math34.5%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 47.8 (#79)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen3.5 35B-A3B
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.5%10.5%
LMArena Expert11841408
GPQA Diamond—83.5%
MMLU-Pro51.1%—
GPQA (HELM)38.3%—
MMLU70.8%—

Multilingual Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 50.0 (#127)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Non-English11861378
LMArena Chinese12091457
LMArena French12381412
LMArena German11921367
LMArena Japanese11541325
LMArena Korean11501356
LMArena Russian11851376
LMArena Spanish12251392

Instruction Following Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 72.8 (#128)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following11741379
LiveBench Instruction Following48%—
IFEval76%—

Long Context Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 42.4 (#127)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query12051389

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 57.9 (#124)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Text12081395
LMArena Creative Writing11721346
LMArena Multi-Turn11781390
WildBench74.3%—
LiveBench Language15.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Qwen3.5 35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 11× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3.5 35B-A3B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Qwen3.5 35B-A3B?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Qwen3.5 35B-A3B lists at $0.25 and $2.

Is Amazon Nova Micro or Qwen3.5 35B-A3B better for coding?

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B does, with 262K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B has 28.

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