# Amazon Nova Micro vs Claude 2.1

> Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-claude-2-1
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 3 categories and Claude 2.1 in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 24.9 to 9.6.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Anthropic |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 24.9 |
| Rank | 290 | 340 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.0 (#289)
- Claude 2.1: 25.8 (#322)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | — | 7.1% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 21.9 (#125)
- Claude 2.1: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 16.7 (#289)
- Claude 2.1: 20.6 (#216)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| DTBench | — | 51% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 119.22 |
| ForecastBench | — | 54.2 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 24.9 (#252)
- Claude 2.1: 9.6 (#309)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 1.9% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.2 (#231)
- Claude 2.1: 15.5 (#287)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 70.8% | 73.5% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 33% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.7 (#234)
- Claude 2.1: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | — |
| LMArena French | 1237 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.6 (#267)
- Claude 2.1: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#224)
- Claude 2.1: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1206 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.7 (#242)
- Claude 2.1: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 2.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | — |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Claude 2.1?

Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Claude 2.1 better for coding?

Amazon Nova Micro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.0 versus 25.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Claude 2.1 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Claude 2.1 has 7.