# Amazon Nova Micro vs Claude 3 Haiku

> Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 25.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-claude-3-haiku
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 7 categories and Claude 3 Haiku in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 24.9 to 9.2.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Haiku |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Anthropic |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 25.7 |
| Rank | 290 | 333 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.0 (#289)
- Claude 3 Haiku: 26.1 (#320)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Haiku |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1199 |
| WeirdML | — | 9.8% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 39.4% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 50.1% |
| CadEval | — | 12% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 68.9% |
| MBPP+ | — | 68.8% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 21.9 (#125)
- Claude 3 Haiku: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Haiku |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 16.7 (#289)
- Claude 3 Haiku: 15.7 (#303)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Haiku |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1174 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 34.2% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| DTBench | — | 50.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.3 |
| ForecastBench | — | 53.2 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 74.2% |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 24.9 (#252)
- Claude 3 Haiku: 9.2 (#313)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Haiku |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1188 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 1.8% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 14.9% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.2 (#231)
- Claude 3 Haiku: 17.3 (#280)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Haiku |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1148 |
| MMLU | 70.8% | 73.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 36.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 34.2% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Micro: —
- Claude 3 Haiku: 23.1 (#123)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Haiku |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 950 |
| ScienceQA | — | 72% |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.7 (#234)
- Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#238)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Haiku |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1178 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1155 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1194 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1174 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1102 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1108 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1204 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1165 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.6 (#267)
- Claude 3 Haiku: 61.5 (#242)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Haiku |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1174 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#224)
- Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#232)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Haiku |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1206 | 1191 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.7 (#242)
- Claude 3 Haiku: 29.8 (#286)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Haiku |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1195 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1157 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1190 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 717 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Claude 3 Haiku?

Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 25.7 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Claude 3 Haiku better for coding?

Amazon Nova Micro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.0 versus 26.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Claude 3 Haiku share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Claude 3 Haiku has 37.