Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Qwen3.5 Plus
Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 15× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3.5 Plus's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 Plus in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.5 Plus leads 49.6 to 26.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Vectara Hallucination Rate: 5.5% for Amazon Nova Micro and 10.7% for Qwen3.5 Plus.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $2.40 for Qwen3.5 Plus.
- Qwen3.5 Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3.5 Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 42.9 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2026-02-16 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | 1M |
| Max output | 10K | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | $2.40 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 621.92 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 0.54 |
Reasoning Qwen3.5 Plus leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.8 (#74)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 22% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 17% |
| DTBench | — | 80.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LMCA | — | 36.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 146.78 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Qwen3.5 Plus leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Qwen3.5 Plus: 49.6 (#61)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 86.7% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 21% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 2.1% |
Knowledge Qwen3.5 Plus leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#83)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | 10.7% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 84.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 25.4% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | — |
| LMArena French | 1238 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | — |
Long Context Qwen3.5 Plus leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Qwen3.5 Plus: 43.0 (#113)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| CL-bench | — | 19.8% |
| CL-bench Life | — | 12.4% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Qwen3.5 Plus?
Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 15× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3.5 Plus's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Qwen3.5 Plus?
Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Qwen3.5 Plus lists at $0.40 and $2.40.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen3.5 Plus does, with 1M tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Qwen3.5 Plus share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.