Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 14× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 8 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 58.2 to 39.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 51.1% for Amazon Nova Micro and 78.6% for Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $2 for Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 42.5 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2025-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 131K |
| Max output | 10K | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | $2 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 25 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.0 (#289), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.9 (#101)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1441 |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 21.9 (#125), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 16.7 (#289), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 30.1 (#79)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1428 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 66.7% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 24.9 (#252), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 36.3 (#118)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | 46.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1440 |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.2 (#231), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.3 (#102)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | 78.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | 9.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | 63% |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1416 |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multilingual Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.7 (#234), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.3 (#88)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1407 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1461 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1415 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1416 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1398 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1366 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1403 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1436 |
Instruction Following Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.6 (#267), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 71.0 (#154)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 76% | 81% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1388 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#224), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#218)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1206 | 1403 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 55.6% |
Writing & Preference Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.7 (#242), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.2 (#116)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1417 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1333 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | 80.7% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1415 |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 14× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct lists at $0.50 and $2.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 30.0 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct does, with 131K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?
23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.