Model comparison

Amazon Nova Micro vs StarCoder 2 7B

Amazon Nova Micro has enough public results to be ranked (#290); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Micro Amazon

29.9

Rank #290 Confirmed

StarCoder 2 7B NVIDIA

36.5

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 7B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where StarCoder 2 7B leads 34.2 to 30.0.
  • StarCoder 2 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova Micro and StarCoder 2 7B specifications
Amazon Nova MicroStarCoder 2 7B
ProviderAmazonNVIDIA
Noometry Index29.936.5
Released2024-12-032024-02-20
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K—
Max output10K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.035—
Output $ / M tokens$0.14—
Results tracked327

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Category by category

Coding StarCoder 2 7B leads

Amazon Nova Micro: 30.0 (#289), StarCoder 2 7B: 34.2

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroStarCoder 2 7B
LiveBench Coding20.2%—
LMArena Coding1218—
BigCodeBench Complete—27.7%
HumanEval+—29.9%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 21.9 (#125), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroStarCoder 2 7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard22.3%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 16.7 (#289), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroStarCoder 2 7B
LiveBench Reasoning25.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1191—
LiveBench Data Analysis34%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—92.92
LiveBench29.6%—
WinoGrande—57.1%

Math Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 24.9 (#252), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroStarCoder 2 7B
Omni-MATH21.4%—
LiveBench Math34.5%—
LMArena Math1206—
GSM8K—32.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 29.2 (#231), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroStarCoder 2 7B
MMLU70.8%38.8%
MMLU-Pro51.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.5%—
GPQA (HELM)38.3%—
LMArena Expert1184—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—38.7%

Multilingual Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.7 (#234), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Non-English1186—
LMArena Chinese1209—
LMArena French1237—
LMArena German1192—
LMArena Japanese1154—
LMArena Korean1150—
LMArena Russian1185—
LMArena Spanish1225—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 56.6 (#267), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroStarCoder 2 7B
LiveBench Instruction Following48%—
IFEval76%—
LMArena Instruction Following1174—

Long Context Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#224), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Longer Query1206—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Amazon Nova Micro: 39.7 (#242), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova MicroStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Text1208—
LMArena Creative Writing1172—
WildBench74.3%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1178—
LiveBench Language15.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Micro better than StarCoder 2 7B?

Amazon Nova Micro has enough public results to be ranked (#290); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Amazon Nova Micro or StarCoder 2 7B better for coding?

StarCoder 2 7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.2 versus 30.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and StarCoder 2 7B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 7B has 7.

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