# Amazon Nova Micro vs Codellama 70b Instruct

> Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-codellama-70b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 3 categories and Codellama 70b Instruct in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 36.5 to 24.8.
- Codellama 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 33.7 |
| Rank | 294 | 237 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 40.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 49.6% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 65.9% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- Codellama 70b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1052 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- Codellama 70b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- Codellama 70b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 992 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | — |
| LMArena French | 1238 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1024 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- Codellama 70b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Codellama 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1057 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | — |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Codellama 70b Instruct?

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Codellama 70b Instruct better for coding?

Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Codellama 70b Instruct share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Codellama 70b Instruct has 7.