# Amazon Nova Micro vs Codellama 34b Instruct

> Amazon Nova Micro and Codellama 34b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 30.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-codellama-34b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 10

## Summary

- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 5 categories and Codellama 34b Instruct in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 39.7 to 28.4.
- Codellama 34b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 30.2 |
| Rank | 290 | 285 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.0 (#289)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.0 (#310)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1046 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 29% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 37.1% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 43.9% |
| MBPP+ | — | 56.3% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 21.9 (#125)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 16.7 (#289)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 18.8 (#250)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1032 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 24.9 (#252)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#227)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1056 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.2 (#231)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.7 (#234)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.9 (#279)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1011 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 976 |
| 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)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.4 (#286)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1028 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#224)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.8 (#279)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1206 | 1014 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.7 (#242)
- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.4 (#292)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 34b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1066 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1032 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1015 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Codellama 34b Instruct?

Amazon Nova Micro and Codellama 34b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 30.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Codellama 34b Instruct better for coding?

Amazon Nova Micro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.0 versus 28.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Codellama 34b Instruct share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Codellama 34b Instruct has 14.