Model comparison

Amazon Nova Micro vs Qwen3.5 Max Preview

Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Micro Amazon

30.4

Rank #294 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 Max Preview Alibaba (Qwen)

45.3

Rank #71 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 Max Preview in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads 66.0 to 39.5.

Side by side

Amazon Nova Micro and Qwen3.5 Max Preview specifications
Amazon Nova MicroQwen3.5 Max Preview
ProviderAmazonAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.445.3
Released2024-12-03—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window128K—
Max output10K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.035—
Output $ / M tokens$0.14—
Results tracked3217

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 44.0 (#77)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Coding12181487
LiveBench Coding20.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen3.5 Max Preview
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard22.3%—

Reasoning Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 30.8 (#84)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Hard Prompts11911483
LiveBench Reasoning25.1%—
LiveBench Data Analysis34%—
LiveBench29.6%—

Math Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 40.1 (#94)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Math12061474
Omni-MATH21.4%—
LiveBench Math34.5%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 41.8 (#107)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Expert11841489
MMLU-Pro51.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.5%—
GPQA (HELM)38.3%—
MMLU70.8%—

Multilingual Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 56.2 (#22)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Non-English11861465
LMArena Chinese12091534
LMArena French12381484
LMArena German11921487
LMArena Japanese11541495
LMArena Korean11501438
LMArena Russian11851471
LMArena Spanish12251470

Instruction Following Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 77.0 (#31)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Instruction Following11741467
LiveBench Instruction Following48%—
IFEval76%—

Long Context Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 45.2 (#45)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Longer Query12051476

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 66.0 (#41)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Text12081470
LMArena Creative Writing11721464
LMArena Multi-Turn11781478
WildBench74.3%—
LiveBench Language15.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Qwen3.5 Max Preview?

Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Amazon Nova Micro or Qwen3.5 Max Preview better for coding?

Qwen3.5 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Qwen3.5 Max Preview share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Max Preview has 17.

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