# Amazon Nova Micro vs Command A

> Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 71× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command A's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-command-a
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 19

## Summary

- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 1 category and Command A in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Command A leads 35.9 to 22.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 22.3% for Amazon Nova Micro and 57.1% for Command A.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command A.
- Command A accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 128K.
- Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Cohere |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 36.5 |
| Rank | 294 | 215 |
| Context | 128K | 256K |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | $2.50 |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | $10 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- Command A: 27.2 (#322)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1330 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 12% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- Command A: 35.9 (#40)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | 57.1% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- Command A: 18.3 (#283)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1326 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 28.8% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| DTBench | — | 61.3% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LMCA | — | 10.3% |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- Command A: 36.2 (#171)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1300 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- Command A: 37.1 (#159)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | 9.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1295 |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- Command A: 45.3 (#170)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1313 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1327 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1351 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1341 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1285 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1285 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1314 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1347 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- Command A: 69.1 (#177)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1309 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- Command A: 40.6 (#151)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1334 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- Command A: 47.6 (#208)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1331 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1319 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1339 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1145 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Command A?

Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Micro costs 71× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command A's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Command A?

Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Command A better for coding?

Amazon Nova Micro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.5 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Command A does, with 256K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Command A share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Command A has 24.