Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Qwen3 8B
Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 5.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3 8B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 8B in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Qwen3 8B leads 30.2 to 22.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 22.3% for Amazon Nova Micro and 42.6% for Qwen3 8B.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.18 / $0.70 for Qwen3 8B.
- Qwen3 8B accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.
- Qwen3 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 33.7 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 131K |
| Max output | 10K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | $0.18 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3 8B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3 8B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | 42.6% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| DTBench | — | 59.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 136.17 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Qwen3 8B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 56.1% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |
Knowledge Qwen3 8B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | 4.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| 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 8B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | — |
Long Context Qwen3 8B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| 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 8B?
Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 5.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3 8B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Qwen3 8B?
Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Qwen3 8B lists at $0.18 and $0.70.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Qwen3 8B better for coding?
Qwen3 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen3 8B does, with 131K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Qwen3 8B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.