# Amazon Nova Micro vs Claude 3 Sonnet

> Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

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

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 3 categories and Claude 3 Sonnet in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 24.9 to 10.0.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Anthropic |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 28.8 |
| Rank | 290 | 311 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.0 (#289)
- Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.2 (#296)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1223 |
| WeirdML | — | 10.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 42.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 53.8% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 64% |
| MBPP+ | — | 69.3% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

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

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

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 16.7 (#289)
- Claude 3 Sonnet: 19.7 (#232)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1197 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| DTBench | — | 53.6% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 120.69 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.1% |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 24.9 (#252)
- Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.0 (#305)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1213 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.5% |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 18.2% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.2 (#231)
- Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#271)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1173 |
| MMLU | 70.8% | 75.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 40.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Micro: —
- Claude 3 Sonnet: 24.7 (#120)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 984 |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.7 (#234)
- Claude 3 Sonnet: 38.0 (#229)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1205 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1188 |
| LMArena French | 1237 | 1228 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1204 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1131 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1128 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1227 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1204 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.6 (#267)
- Claude 3 Sonnet: 63.1 (#230)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1200 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#224)
- Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#223)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1206 | 1211 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.7 (#242)
- Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.3 (#233)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Claude 3 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1218 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1186 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1227 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

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

Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

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

They score almost the same on coding (30.0 vs 29.2); test both on your own repository before choosing.

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

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Claude 3 Sonnet has 30.