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Model comparison

Amazon Nova Micro vs Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.2 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 20× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Micro Amazon

30.4

Rank #294 Confirmed

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Alibaba (Qwen)

43.2

Rank #95 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads 60.2 to 39.5.
  • Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $2.80 for Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B.
  • Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.
  • Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova MicroQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
ProviderAmazonAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.443.2
Released2024-12-032025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K131K
Max output10K33K
Input $ / M tokens$0.035$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$0.14$2.80
Results tracked3218

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 42.4 (#100)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Coding12181439
LiveBench Coding20.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard22.3%—

Reasoning Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 29.3 (#92)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Hard Prompts11911428
LiveBench Reasoning25.1%—
LiveBench Data Analysis34%—
LiveBench29.6%—

Math Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 39.0 (#118)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Math12061426
Omni-MATH21.4%—
LiveBench Math34.5%—

Knowledge Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 40.3 (#121)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Expert11841442
MMLU-Pro51.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.5%—
GPQA (HELM)38.3%—
MMLU70.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: —, Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 39.8 (#55)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Vision—1247

Multilingual Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 51.9 (#97)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Non-English11861405
LMArena Chinese12091463
LMArena French12381452
LMArena German11921424
LMArena Japanese11541385
LMArena Korean11501394
LMArena Russian11851408
LMArena Spanish12251428

Instruction Following Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 74.2 (#101)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Instruction Following11741406
LiveBench Instruction Following48%—
IFEval76%—

Long Context Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 43.4 (#98)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Longer Query12051420

Writing & Preference Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 60.2 (#99)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Text12081420
LMArena Creative Writing11721366
LMArena Multi-Turn11781428
WildBench74.3%—
LiveBench Language15.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B?

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.2 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 20× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B lists at $0.70 and $2.80.

Is Amazon Nova Micro or Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B better for coding?

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B does, with 131K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B has 18.

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