Model comparison
Amazon Nova Pro vs Phi-4 Mini
Amazon Nova Pro and Phi-4 Mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.0 vs 30.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 2 categories and Phi-4 Mini in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Amazon Nova Pro leads 35.1 to 28.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Vectara Hallucination Rate: 5.1% for Amazon Nova Pro and 23.5% for Phi-4 Mini.
- Phi-4 Mini is cheaper at $0.075 / $0.30 per million input/output tokens, against $0.80 / $3.20 for Amazon Nova Pro.
- Amazon Nova Pro accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 128K.
- Phi-4 Mini has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Pro | Phi-4 Mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 31.0 | 30.9 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2024-12-11 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | 128K |
| Max output | 10K | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.80 | $0.075 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $3.20 | $0.30 |
| Results tracked | 38 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Amazon Nova Pro leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 35.1 (#229), Phi-4 Mini: 28.1 (#317)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 10.8% |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1270 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 16.7 (#147), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 25% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 1.7% | — |
Reasoning Phi-4 Mini leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 20.0 (#243), Phi-4 Mini: 22.4 (#195)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 32.6% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 123.8 | — |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |
Math Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 28.5 (#243), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 24.2% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 38% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1252 | — |
Knowledge Amazon Nova Pro leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 27.4 (#250), Phi-4 Mini: 25.3 (#262)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | 23.5% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.4% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 30.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 44.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1211 | — |
| MMLU | 82% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 25.0 (#126), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 980 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 39.7 (#223), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1234 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1244 | — |
| LMArena French | 1271 | — |
| LMArena German | 1243 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1200 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1203 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1240 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1182 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 64.9 (#226), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.1% | — |
| IFEval | 81.5% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1235 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#205), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1255 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 43.9 (#226), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1259 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1212 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 60.5% | — |
| WildBench | 77.7% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1246 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 37% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Pro better than Phi-4 Mini?
Amazon Nova Pro and Phi-4 Mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.0 vs 30.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro or Phi-4 Mini?
Phi-4 Mini is cheaper. It lists at $0.075 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens; Amazon Nova Pro lists at $0.80 and $3.20.
Is Amazon Nova Pro or Phi-4 Mini better for coding?
Amazon Nova Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.1 versus 28.1 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Amazon Nova Pro does, with 300K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Pro and Phi-4 Mini share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 Mini has 3.