Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs StarCoder 2 3B
Amazon Nova Micro has enough public results to be ranked (#294); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIASummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 3B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- StarCoder 2 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | StarCoder 2 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 36.3 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-02-22 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | — |
| Results tracked | 32 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding StarCoder 2 3B leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), StarCoder 2 3B: 33.5
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 21.4% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 27.4% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 88.76 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |
Math Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 21.6% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 70.8% | 36.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 34.2% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| 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), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| 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 StarCoder 2 3B?
Amazon Nova Micro has enough public results to be ranked (#294); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?
StarCoder 2 3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.5 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and StarCoder 2 3B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.