Noometry

Model comparison

Amazon Nova Micro vs QwQ-32B

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Micro Amazon

30.4

Rank #294 Confirmed

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.8

Rank #159 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and QwQ-32B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where QwQ-32B leads 72.6 to 56.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Reasoning: 25.1% for Amazon Nova Micro and 83.5% for QwQ-32B.
  • QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova MicroQwQ-32B
ProviderAmazonAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.439.8
Released2024-12-032024-11-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K—
Max output10K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.035—
Output $ / M tokens$0.14—
Results tracked3236

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Category by category

Coding QwQ-32B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwQ-32B
LiveBench Coding20.2%72.2%
LMArena Coding12181333
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
BigCodeBench Instruct—44.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), QwQ-32B: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwQ-32B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard22.3%—

Reasoning QwQ-32B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwQ-32B
LiveBench Reasoning25.1%83.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts11911325
LiveBench Data Analysis34%65%
LiveBench29.6%72%
Chess Puzzles—5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—137.6
ForecastBench—58.3

Math QwQ-32B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwQ-32B
LiveBench Math34.5%77.8%
LMArena Math12061359
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—59.2%
Omni-MATH21.4%—

Knowledge QwQ-32B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwQ-32B
LMArena Expert11841324
GPQA Diamond—65.3%
MMLU-Pro51.1%—
Confabulations—15.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.5%—
GPQA (HELM)38.3%—
MMLU70.8%—

Multilingual QwQ-32B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English11861305
LMArena Chinese12091378
LMArena French12381336
LMArena German11921313
LMArena Japanese11541262
LMArena Korean11501279
LMArena Russian11851297
LMArena Spanish12251354

Instruction Following QwQ-32B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwQ-32B
LiveBench Instruction Following48%81.8%
LMArena Instruction Following11741297
IFEval76%—

Long Context QwQ-32B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwQ-32B
LMArena Longer Query12051308
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference QwQ-32B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroQwQ-32B
LMArena Text12081329
LMArena Creative Writing11721288
LMArena Multi-Turn11781314
LiveBench Language15.8%51.4%
Short-Story Creative Writing—80.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1257
WildBench74.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Micro better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Amazon Nova Micro or QwQ-32B better for coding?

QwQ-32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.4 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and QwQ-32B share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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